Heart to Hearth Cookery

After the receipt (recipe) To make Wigs was laid before the fire to rise a quarter pound of sugar was worked in, the paste rolled in small balls and marked with a knife to form wedges.  The word wig has a Dutch origin meaning wedge.  The first wigs baked in a tin baker are cooling on a sieve.

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