To make fine Cakes
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
The original text of the recipe is as follows:
To make fine Cakes. Take fine flowre and good Samaske water you must haue no other liquour but that, then take sweet butter, two or three yolkes of egges and a good quantity of Suger, and a fewe cloues, and mace, as your Cookes mouth shall serue him, and a lyttle saffron, and a little Gods good about a sponfull if you put in too much they shall arise, cutte them in squares lyke vnto trenchers, and pricke them well, and let your ouen be well swept and lay them vppon papers and so set them into the ouen, do not burne them if they be three or foure dayes olde they bee the better.
Related Recipes
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Materials
The original recipe calls for the following ingredients: [edit this list as appropriate]
flour
butter
yolks
eggs
sugar
cloves
mace
saffron
trenchers
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Procedure
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Bibliography
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?goodh:54>. Accessed on April 29, 2025, 9:01 am.