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Rock Cakes

A historical recipe from The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory, by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady (1844).

A historical recipe

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed., by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady (1844). Project Gutenberg eBook #29232.

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

Source and licence

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory, by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady (1844). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29232 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29232). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. One pound of flour, half a pound of clarified butter, half a pound of currants, half a pound of sugar;
  2. mix and pinch into small cakes.