Thanksgiving meals from a cookbook of Shakespeare's time - Modernized Recipe: Cogs Biscuits

To make Cogs Biskett

Take 3 pound of fine flower well dry’d a Ounce of Carraway seeds 6 spoonefull of suger Double Refin’d 6 spoonefull of Ale 6 Eggs the whites of Two and wett it with warm Milk 2 peny worth of safforn lett it Lye to Rise

Source: Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection

Ingredients:

5 cups of unrefined, white flour

3 tbsp. sugar

3 tsp. caraway seeds

1 generous pinch of saffron

1 tsp. salt

3 tbsp. beer

4 eggs

about 1 ½ cups of whole milk