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A Cheap Feed Cake

Seed Cake with Emptins – 1798

Thoughts: This recipe results in a somewhat quirky loaf that falls somewhere between a heavy cake and a very serious shortbread. One …

Colonial Butter Biscuits

Butter Biscuits – 1798

Thoughts: True to their name, these are quite buttery. More what we might think of as modern rolls rather than biscuits, they …