Suet Cakes
Ingredients
Directions
Chop suet fine, pour over it scalding water, let it stand until cool enough to work in the flour. Knead in flour lightly, roll it thin, cut them out, and bake them quickly. Serve up hot. One teaspoonful of salt.
By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.".
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. See the original page.
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