Miss Cripps’ Receipt for making Water Cakes

Title: Miss Cripps’ Receipt for making Water Cakes
Creator: Mrs. Cripps
Date: en 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for a baked good using flour, sugar, and caraway seeds.
Transcript: Take a Pounde & a half of fine Flower six ounces of fine Sugar beat & sifted one ounce of Carroway Seeds & as much Salt as will lay on the Point of a Knife rub these well together & mix them into a Paste with a Pint of rich Cream roll them out into thin Sheets & cut them into round Cakes & lay them on Tin sheets to bake first pricking them well or they will blister they will take but little baking just brown all over if they are kept in a dry Place they will keep for ever.
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent; en Grimm, Stephanie; en Salahuddin, Shafiya
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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