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Breakfast and Tea Cakes

A simple cake made by mixing water and flour into a thick batter and cooking it like batter bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Breakfast and Tea Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix water with flour until you achieve a thick batter consistency.

  2. Cook the batter like any other batter bread.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the batter once it is mixed with water.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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