Home cookery

Flour ... ^ lb. Butter 3 oz. Salt a pinch. Cream to mix. Put the flour on a paste board, add the salt, chop the butter in the flour with a knife, and mix thoroughly, but use the hands as little as possible. Moisten with cream. Roll out and cut into small rounds. Bake in a quick oven, and serve hot for afternoon tea. Oatmeal Biscuits Flour Oatmeal (medium Sugar Butter Egg Baking powder Milk. or 6 3 3 3 I. \ Cakes. oz. oz. oz. oz. teaspoonful. 1 82 Rub the butter lightly into the flour, mix in the dry ingredients, add the egg (beaten), and sufficient milk to form a soft paste. Bake in greased tins ; or the paste may be made firmer, and rolled out and cut into shapes as for biscuits. Luncheon Cake. Flour. Butter Lard Currants Sultanas Candied peel Sugar Eg-g Milk Baking powder Almond flavour or Nutmeg Salt 1 lb. 2 OZ. 2 OZ. 4 oz. 4 oz. I oz. 6 oz. 1 to mix. 1^ teaspoonfuls. 6 drops, a pinch, a pinch. Rub in the butter and lard. Mix the dry ingredients, add the egg and milk (rather less than half a pint), then the almond flavouring. Bake at once, in greased tins. Herbert Cakes. Flour 1 lb. Lard \\ oz. Butter ... oz. Sugar 2 oz. Currants 2 oz. Candied peel \ oz. Baking powder ... ... i teaspoonful. Nutmeg a pinch. Milk ... ... to mix. Rub the lard and butter lightly into the flour, add dry ingredients, and mix into a light dough with a little milk. Roll out the mixture, and cut into small rounds. Place a slice of peel on each round. Bake in a moderate oven. When done, sprinkle over with sugar. i83 Garfield Biscuits. Rice flour Flour Butter Castor sug'ar Baking powder 2 OZ. 2 OZ. 2 OZ. I OZ. ^ teaspoonful. Eg-g I. Mix together the flour and baking powder, rub in the butter, add the sugar, make into a firm paste with the egg. Roll out one quarter of an inch thick, cut into strips one inch wide and three inches long ; or into two inches square. Bake in moderate oven. When cold spread half the strips with peach or apricot jam, ice the remainder with Lemon Water Icing (p. 200), and decorate with Royal Icing (p. 199) — coloured brown — through a small plain pipe. These biscuits are nice quite plain. Flour Sugar Currants ... Egg Lard or butter. , Candied peel . Baking powder Nutmeg ... Milk . Rock Cakes. lib. 2 OZ. 2 OZ. 1 (well beaten). 2 OZ. 2 I teaspoonful. a pinch, to mix. Rub the lard or butter into the flour, add the other dry ingredients, the egg, and sufficient milk to make a stiff" dough. Pile in rocky shapes on a greased tin. Malvern Cake. Castor sugar i lb. Rice flour Fine flour Eggs... Lemon rind (grated) Beat the sugar and eggs till light, as for sponge cake. Stir in the rice flour and the other flour, and grated lemon rind. Put the mixture into an oiled and sugared mould, and bake in a moderate oven. When cold, coat 4- to flavour. 184 with lemon water icing (p. 200). It looks very nice plain, but may be ornamented with crystallised fruit, or with pink and white Royal icing*. German Porcupine Cake. Flour I lb. Butter 1 lb. Castor sugar |- lb. Eggs (well beaten together) 4. Candied peel i oz. Almonds (blanched and sliced). Baking powder i teaspoonful.