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From Derry Housekeepers' Collection of Tested Cooking Recipes (1895).

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A historical recipe

Derry Housekeepers' Collection of Tested Cooking Recipes, by Baptist Ladies Aid Society (1895).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. eight ounces Pastry Flour
  2. 4 Butter

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Rice--=Qne ounces.
  2. : Jae Sie Indian Meal.—* HPF, SIX ONCCS.
  3. — ae Chopped Meat.—One sollidly packed cup, eight ounces Pastry Flour.——One cup, four ounces.
  4. Pig i 4 Butter.
  5. One solidly packed cup, nine ounces.
  6. — .

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From Derry Housekeepers' Collection of Tested Cooking Recipes (1895), printed page 60, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/043-museum-derry-housekeepers

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.