Pepper Cake

Rich wine in which white pepper has been boiled, sugar added, boiled and dropped in shapes and allowed to dry (Glasse 1747).

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Original Receipt in 'The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy' by Hannah Glasse, 1747 (Glasse 1747);

To make pepper cakes.
TAKE half a gill of sack, half a quarter of an ounce of whole white pepper, put it in and boil it together a quarter of an hour, then take the pepper out, and put in as much double-refined sugar as will make it like a paste, then drop it in what shape your please on plates, and let it dry itself.

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Compare with:
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