To Make Princes Biskets [Prince Biscuits]

Item

Title

To Make Princes Biskets [Prince Biscuits]

Date

1694/1795

Description

A recipe for a pastry using eggs, sugar, flour, and caraway seeds, baked in small "coffins," or boxes/tins.

Transcript

[inserted left margin: [14]] To Make Princes Bisket

Take 8 eggs, a pound of Suger, 2 pound of flour, beat these to gether one houre. then put a few caraway sedes in it, when your Cofins are Redy to fill a noint them over with buter, then fill them half full of bater, then backe them in a quick oven.—

Contributor

Gerber, Steven
Ochsner, Elizabeth
Le, Vincent

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.