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The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 23:13:14 JST The Public Domain Review

Making #pancakes tonight? Here’s a recipe from the 16th century which includes “two or three spoonefuls of ale” — (from The Good Huswifes Jewell, an English cookery book from 1585) #PancakeDay #FatTuesday #ShroveTuesday
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1. 16th-century painting of people cooking and serving up pancakes. Beneath is a recipe: To make Pancakes Take new thicke Creame a pine, foure or five yolks of egs, a good handful of flower and two or three spoonefuls of ale, strain them together into a faire platter, and season it with a good handfull of sugar, a spooneful of synamon, and a little Ginger: then take a friing pan, and put in a litle peece of Butter, as big as yourthumbe, and when it is molten brown, cast it out of your pan, and with a ladle put to the further side of your pan some of your stuffe, and hold your pan ..., so that your stuffe may run abroad over all the pan as thin as may be: then set it to the fire, and let the fyre be verie soft, and when the one side is baked, then turn the other, and bake them as dry as ye can without burning.
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