Florence White

Hard Cakes

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

Old Yorkshire recipe used at farm tea-parties from Miss Esther A. Smith, Limpsfield, Surrey.

Ingredients

  • Flour 1 lb.
  • butter and lard 10 oz.
  • baking powder

Method

  1. Sieve the flour, baking powder and volatile salts.
  2. Rub the fat in.
  3. Mix to a stiff paste with cold water.
  4. Roll out to ⅛ of an inch.
  5. Stamp or prick all over with a fork.
  6. Cut out with round cutter.
  7. Bake in