Name: Milan Cake, or Butter Biscuit
Ingredients: ½ pound good melted butter; cake paste (as per preceding recipe)

Milan Cake, or Butter Biscuit

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

½ pound good melted butter
cake paste (as per preceding recipe)

Directions

The book says “a moderately hot oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Add the melted butter to the cake paste and mix well.
Grease the moulds and fill them no more than halfway.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until risen and golden.

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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Milan Cake, or Butter Biscuit