the thorough good cook - recipe

The Thorough Good Cook
by George Augustus Sala
recipes from 1896

A digital version of a rare antique cookbook originally published in 1896 for those who want to kick it Olde Skool !

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The Thorough Good Cook by George Augustus Sala is now in the public domain. The recipes are original and unadulterated, of course!

RECIPE

Scotch Shortbread.
Put two pounds of butter in some warm place over-
night, where it will gradually become soft without at the
same time melting. Take two quarters of flour, and mix
with half a pound of loaf-sugar in powder ; add these to
the butter, and knead the whole till it appears like a dough;
then add a tablespoonful or two of yeast ; again knead it,
and roll out into cakes the proper size and thickness.
Ornament the edges with comfits, having previously pricked
the cakes with a fork.

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