Shrewsbury Cakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound butter
• 1/2 pound flour
• 1 egg
• 6 ounces loaf sugar
• 1/2 ounce caraway seed

Instructions

1. Mix half a pound of butter, well beat like cream, with the same weight of flour, one egg, six ounces of beaten and sifted loaf sugar, and half an ounce of caraway seed.
2. Form these into a paste, roll them thin, and lay them in sheets of tin.
3. Then bake them in a slow oven.