Banbury Cakes

Gervase Markham, Cottam, Nottinghamshire, c. 1568-1636

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

A recipe ‘To make very good Banbury cakes’ is given by Markham in his English Hus-wife (1615) but it is so involved that although interesting as a record of cakes made in Elizabethan days it is useless in its original form. The following has therefore been extracted for modern use without destroying its character.

[I have not yet tried it. — ED.]