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Original Recipe

Put one pound of nice sugar into two pounds of flour, add pounded spice of any kind, and pass them through a sieve; beat four eggs, pour them on with three quarters of a pound of melted butter, knead all well together, and bake them.

Ingredients

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  • 1 pound sugar
  • 2 pounds flour
  • pounded spice
  • 4 eggs
  • 0.75 pound butter, melted

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Instructions

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    Put one pound of nice sugar into two pounds of flour, add pounded spice of any kind, and pass them through a sieve; beat four eggs, pour them on with three quarters of a pound of melted butter, knead all well together, and bake them.

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Recipe by Mary Randolph from The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824)