Many of these old preparations have ingredients or flavor profiles that have fallen out of favorite with contemporary diners. If you look at cookbooks from Tudor era England, you'll see a variety of things no one puts on their dinner table in the 21st century. Hell, mincemeat actually contained meat back then.
Anyhow I'm not surprised some people still enjoy these. Here's another version that offers substitutions for the caraway:
I have a vague memory of eating some sort of caraway cookie as a child and it could have been a Shrewsbury biscuit or possibly something from someplace else. Our family enjoyed a wide variety of European cookies during the holidays (not just all-American classics) and to this day I still prefer many European desserts over American ones (the latter are often sickeningly sweet).
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And it wasn't an obscure oddity. Here's another version from the 1790s per King Arthur Flour:
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2015/10/07/caraway-cookies-sift
Many of these old preparations have ingredients or flavor profiles that have fallen out of favorite with contemporary diners. If you look at cookbooks from Tudor era England, you'll see a variety of things no one puts on their dinner table in the 21st century. Hell, mincemeat actually contained meat back then.
Anyhow I'm not surprised some people still enjoy these. Here's another version that offers substitutions for the caraway:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/food/2002/10/shrewsbury_biscuits.shtml
I have a vague memory of eating some sort of caraway cookie as a child and it could have been a Shrewsbury biscuit or possibly something from someplace else. Our family enjoyed a wide variety of European cookies during the holidays (not just all-American classics) and to this day I still prefer many European desserts over American ones (the latter are often sickeningly sweet).