[Sca-cooks] Hannah Woolley/Wolley's shortCakes

[Johnna Holloway]

Here is Hannah Woolley  or Wolley's recipe for shortCakes.

XCVII. To make shortCakes.
Take a Pint of Ale Yeast, and a Pound and half of fresh Butter, melt
your Butter, and let it cool a little, then take as much fine Flower as
you think will serve, mingle it with the Butter and Yeast, and as much
Rosewater and Sugar as you think fit, and if you please, some Caroway
Comfits, so bake it in little Cakes; they will last good half a year. 
page 65

Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670. [Wolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.]
The queen-like closet; or, Rich cabinet stored with all manner of rare
receipts for preserving, candying & cookery. Very pleasant and
beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex. London, 1670.

Johnnae