SHREWSBURY CAKES

And here each season do those cakes abide, Whose honored names the inventive city own, Rendering through Britain’s isle Salopia’s praises known. Shenstone. Sift one pound of sugar, some pounded cinnamon and a nutmeg grated, into three pounds of flour, the finest sort; add a little rose-water to three eggs well beaten; mix these with the flour, &c.; then pour into it as much butter melted as will make it a good thickness to roll out. Stir it well, and roll thin; cut it into such shapes as you like. Bake on tins.

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