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

 

  
 
  White Cake.
Put into a basin some lumps of butter, mix the butter
with fine white sugar, then add a pound of very fine Italian
flour ; work the whole into a paste, shape the paste into
fingers or flat cakes, bake in a quick. oven. Eat the cakes
hot, and sprinkle over them either honey, preserve, or plain
white sugar.

 

 
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