Sweet Baked Goods Trafalgar Cakes

trafalgar cakes

(from the Lewistown Gazette, in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1865)

Ingredients:

1 lb. well-dried flour​

6 oz. of finely pounded sugar​

6 oz. of butter​

1/2 lb. currants​

3 eggs​

Instructions:

Mix a pound of well-dried flour with six ounces of finely pounded sugar; beat six ounces of butter to a cream, and stir in half a pound of currants, well cleaned and dried, and three eggs, well beaten; then and the flour and sugar, and beat for some time. Flour some tins, and drop a tablespoonful upon them; then bake as usual. - Godey's Lady's Book.​

What looks like an unleavened raisin cookie, these cakes must have been named for Nelson's victory in 1805.

 

[donna]

Sound good.