To make Bisket-bread

PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE: The Accomplish'd Lady's Delight In Preserving, Physick, Beautifying, and Cookery, 1675 | CLASS: Authentic

DESCRIPTION: A recipe for biscuit bread

To make Bisket-bread.

Take half a peck of Flower fine, two Ounces of Anniseeds, two Ounces of Coriander-seed, the whites of six Eggs, a pint of Ale-Yeast, with as much warm-water, as will make it up into a Paste, so bake it in a long Roul; when it is two days Old, pare it, and slice it, then Sugar it, and dry it in an Oven, and so keep it all the Year.