[Sca-cooks] Cakes with paste very short

[Johnna Holloway]

Here's another recipe that describes the finished cakes as
short as in "so make your Cakes the paste will be very short, therfore 
make them very little, lay paper vnder them."

To make fine Cakes.
TAke a quantitye of fine wheate flower, and put it in an Earthen Pot 
stoppe it close and set it in an Ouen, and bake it as longe as you 
woulde a Pastye of Venison, and when it is baked it will be ful of 
clods, then serce your flower through a fine Ser|ser, then take Clouted 
Creame or swéete Butter, but Creame is best: then take Suger, Cloues, 
Mace, Saffron and yolkes of Egges, so muche as will seeme to season your 
Flower, then put these thinges into the Creame, temper all together, 
then put thereto your flower, so make your Cakes the paste will be very 
short, therfore make them very little, lay paper vnder them.

Partridge, John, fl. 1566-1573. The widowes treasure plentifully 
furnished with sundry precious and approoued secretes in phisicke and 
chirurgery for the health and pleasure of mankinde… Publication Info: At 
London : Printed by Edward Alde, for Edward White, 1588.

Johnnae