King Cakes
450g (1lb) Flour
340g (12oz) Butter
225g (8oz) Sugar
225g (8oz) Currants
Egg Yolks
Currants
Mace
Sift the flour.
Rub the butter into the flour.
Add enough egg yolks to slacken the mixture.
Mix in the sugar, currants and mace to taste.
Form into small cakes and place on to buttered greaseproof paper.
Bake.
To make King Cakes
Take a pound of flour, three quarters of a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar and half a pound of currans, well cleaned; rub your butter well into your flour, and put in as many yolks of eggs as will lithe them, then put in your sugar, currans, and some mace, shred in as much as will give them a taste, so make them up in little round cakes, and butter the papers you lie them on.
English Housewifry - 1764
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