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Ash Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Ash Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix meal and water to form a stiff dough.

  2. Shape the dough into a round cake about 1 inch thick.

  3. Create a hot spot in the ashes on the hearth.

  4. Bake the cake directly on the hot ashes.

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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