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Butter Cakes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Butter Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a sponge by mixing 1 quart of water with 1 cake of compressed yeast.

  2. Ensure the sponge is not too stiff.

  3. Once the sponge is ready, add an additional quart of water and ¼ ounce of coarse sea salt.

  4. Break the sponge into small pieces and mix in flour until the dough is similar to bread or roll dough.

  5. Keep the dough moist.

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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