1832 - Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

Apees

DDV CULINARY

A pound of flour, sifted.

Half a pound of butter.

Half a glass of wine, and a table-spoonful of rose-water mixed.

Half a pound of powdered white sugar.

A nutmeg, grated.

A tea-spoonful of beaten cinnamon and mace.

Three table-spoonfuls of carraway seeds.

Sift the flour into a broad pan, and cut up the butter in it.
Add the carraways, sugar, and spice, and pour in the liquor by degrees,
mixing it well with a knife; add enough of cold water to make it a stiff dough.
Spread some flour on your paste-board, take out the dough,
and knead it very well with your hands.
Cut it into small pieces, and knead each separately,
then put them all together, and knead the whole in one lump.
Roll it out in a sheet about a quarter of an inch thick.
Cut it out in round cakes, with the edge of a tumbler, or a tin of that size.
Butter an iron pan, and lay the cakes in it, not too close together.
Bake them a few minutes in a moderate oven, till they are very slightly coloured, but not brown.
If too much baked, they will entirely lose their flavour. Do not roll them out too thin.