Pepper Cake

Anon, unpublished ms, c.1840³⁷

There are very few recipes named as pepper cake, though many recipes for pepper cake-like things exist. The name is probably taken from the German for one of the many forms of gingerbread there – Pfeffernüsse is still a current term for small gingery biscuits, and variants on the theme are also found in Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. While recipes sometimes used ye