SC - Period Shortbread recipes

[Lorix]

WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com wrote:

> >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

Regards and much thanks Wolfmother,
Lorix

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