[ Best Breakfast Cakes Possible ] Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Date: Late 18th or early 19th century; exact date unknown.
Source:
Manuscript Notebook of Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives
| Source Origin: MacDonald Family Fonds
| Reference: MG 1 No. 1 / Microfilm Reel 10,618
A recipe for sweet breakfast cakes.
Best Breakfast Cakes possible.
as much flower as as a spoonful
of yeast will raise, Take 2 Eggs
Milk & cream sufficient for the dough
warm them a couple of lumps of sugar
beat your Eggs & Milk & yeast together &
sugar -- & put them in the middle
of your flour let it stand 1 hour
then knead it up & pull it into
peices to make your roles which
you may role out into little Cakes
cutting them with your dredger
top - let them stand a quarter of
an hour on the tins you bake them
on before the fire. Ten minutes will
bake them 1 lb of Flower to a good spoon
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