Apees recipe
- A pound of flour, sifted.
- Half a pound of butter.
- Half a glass of wine, and a table-spoon of rose-water mixed.
- Half a pound of powdered white sugar.
- A nutmeg, grated.
- A tea-spoonful of beaten cinnamon and mace.
- Three table-spoonfuls of carraway seeds.
Sift the flour into a broad pan, and cut up the butter in it.
Add the carraways, sugar, and spice, and pour in the liquor
by degrees, mixing it well with a knife; add enough of cold
water to make it a stiff dough. Spread some flour on your
pasteboard, take out the dough, and knead it very well with
your hands. Cut it into small pieces, and knead each
separately, then put them all together, and knead the whole
in one lump. Roll it out in a sheet about a quarter of an inch
thick. Cut it out in round cakes, with the edge of a tumbler,
or a tin of that size. Butter an iron pan, and lay the cakes in
it, not too close together. Bake them a few minutes in a
moderate oven, till they are very slightly coloured, but not
brown. If too much baked, they will entirely lose their
flavour. Do not roll them out too thin
