The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of several hundred of the most approved receipts, in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. : To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments, and many other things of sovereign and approved efficacy in most distempers, pains, aches, wounds, sores, &c. never before made publick in these parts; fit either for private families, or such publick-spirited gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor neighbors.
Smith, E. (Eliza), d. ca. 1732.
To make the thin Dutch Bisket.
TAKE five Pounds of Flour, and two Ounces of Carraway seeds, half a Pound of Sugar, and some|thing more than a Pint of Milk. Warm the Milk, and put into it three quarters of a Pound of Butter; then make a Hole in the middle of your Flour, and put in a full Pint of good Ale yeast; then pour in the Butter and Milk, and make these into a Paste, and let it stand a quarter of an Hour by the Fire to rise; then mould it, and roll it in Cakes pretty thin; prick them all over pret|ty much, or they will blister; so bake them a quarter of an Hour.
