Cookbook:Paste for Tarts

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Ingredients

• 1 ounce of loaf sugar, ground and sifted
• 1 pound of fine flour
• 3 ounces of butter
• 1 gill cream, boiling

Procedure

1. Combine the sugar and flour.
2. Make it into a stiff paste with the boiling cream and butter.
3. Work the dough well, and roll it very thinly.

This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook Household Cyclopedia by Henry Hartshorne.