York Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• 2-oz. butter
• 2-oz. lard
• 1/2 lb. castor sugar
• 3 eggs

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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