SC - Period Shortbread recipes

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>From The Widowes Treasure, John Partridge, 1585

To make fine Cakes

Take a quantity of fine wheate Flower, and put it in an earthen pot.  Stop it 
close and set it in an Oven, and bake it as long as you would a Pasty of 
Venison, and when it is baked it will be full of clods.  Then searce your 
flower through a fine sercer.  Then take clouted Creame or sweet butter, but 
Creame is best: then take sugar, cloves, Mace, saffron and yolks of eggs, so 
much as wil seeme to season your flower.  Then  put these things into the 
Creame, temper all together.  Then put thereto your flower.  So make your 
cakes.  The paste will be very short; therefore make them very little.  Lay 
paper under them.

Walk in peace,
Wolfmother
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