Sugar Cakes

Ingredients

• One half pound of dry sifted flour
• One half pound of fresh butter
• One forth pound of sifted loaf sugar
• One egg
• One tablespoon of cream

Directions

1. Mix together the flour and sugar
2. Rub in the butter into the mix of flour and sugar
3. Beat the yolk of an egg with a tablespoonful of cream
4. Add the egg yolk to the flour, sugar, and butter mix
5. Make the mixture unto a paste roll
6. Cut the roll into small round cakes
7. Bake the cakes in a floured tin

Source — "Creole Cookery Book"

Prepared by Alexis Byars
Louisiana Anthropology
June 11, 2018