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Shrewsbury cake

Biscuits with dried fruit, from Shropshire, England

Source: Wikipedia

Shrewsbury cake
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Baking for Britain: Shrewsbury Cakes from Shropshire

Much of my information about Shrewsbury cakes/biscuits has come from ‘The Taste of Britain’ , by Laura Mason and Catherine Brown. For anyo.....
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Shrewsbury Cakes | Cooking in the Archives

{Today’s post is also published on Unique at Penn, a blog maintained by Penn libraries to highlight their collections. Since we’ve been exploring the library’s manuscript recipe b…...
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Shrewsbury Cakes | Revolutionary Pie

Shrewsbury cakes are actually cookies, which were called cakes or biscuits in colonial times — and still are in England. The word cookie comes from the Dutch settlers’ word koekje, or &…...
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Shrewsbury Cakes (17th century) | The Copper Pot

I have occasionally made a delicious Elizabethan style biscuit, known as Shrewsbury Cakes, and the most recent reason for this recipe is an interview by Paul Shuttleworth of BBC Radio Shropshire. I…...

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