A Nice Breakfast Cake

Origin: London, England

Source: Anonymous, 1846

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Combine the flour, butter, salt, eggs, and milk into a paste. Set the dough to rise before the fire. Roll it out and cut into cakes the size of small cheese plates. Sprinkle them with flour.
  2. Bake on a tin in a brisk oven, or alternatively fry them in a clean frying pan. Cut the cakes in half while hot, butter them, and serve quickly.

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