Ingredients:
1 pound butter
1 3/4 pound sugar
2 teaspoonfuls of saleratus (baking soda), in a pint of milk (buttermilk is better)
1 tablespoon caraway seed
flour
Preparation:
- Mix the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the milk and saleratus.
- Then beat three eggs, and grate in one nutmeg.
- Rub in a heaping tablespoon of caraway seed.
- Add flour enough to roll.
- Make it one quarter of an inch in thickness, and bake immediately in a quick oven.
