Set the Bisket Cakes into the Oven as fast
as you can, and have care you do not bake them too much.
Bisket Cakes Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe
The above Old dessert recipe for Bisket Cakes is written in totally different
way to today's recipe books.
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There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of
the text
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Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities
were not often specified.
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Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
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Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
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It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of
cooking
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