Pastry, Etc
1. Shrewsbury Cake.
Sift 1 pound of sugar, some pounded cinnamon, and a nutmeg grated, into 3 pounds of flour. Add a little rose-water to 3 eggs well beaten, mix them with the flour, then pour in as much butter melted as will make it a good thickness to roll out. 2. Another. Take 2 pounds of flour, 1 pound of slack oven. 12. Gingerbread.
One pound and a half of flour, 1 pound of sugar, and a pound of butter, well rubbed together; 1 ounce of ginger, a few caraway seeds, 24 allspice, 12 cloves, a little cinnamon, 1 pint of molasses.
Knead well. 13. Short Gingerbread.
One pound of sugar, pound of butter, 5 eggs, a little cream and saleratus, 1 pounds of flour, rolled hard. To be baked on tin sheets, marked ready to cut 14. Calves'-foot Jelly.