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Welsh Cheesecake

A historical recipe from Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition, by Mary Hooper (1892).

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A historical recipe

Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition, by Mary Hooper (1892). Project Gutenberg eBook #29519.

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

United Kingdom This recipe is known as British, but other nations also prepare similar recipes.

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition, by Mary Hooper (1892). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29519 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29519). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a pound of fine flour
  2. two ounces of sifted loaf-sugar
  3. two ounces of butter beaten
  4. three well-beaten eggs

Method

  1. Dry a quarter of a pound of fine flour, mix with two ounces of sifted loaf-sugar, and add it by degrees to two ounces of butter beaten to a cream;
  2. then work in three well-beaten eggs, flavour with Nelson's Essence of Lemon.
  3. Line patty-pans with short crust, put in the above mixture, and bake in a quick oven.

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