Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book

Mode. — Sift the flour, ginger and spice into a basin, mix well together, add the grated rind of a lemon, then warm the butter and treacle together and mix in, then the milk also warmed (with the carbonate of soda dissolved in it), mix the whole into a smooth dough with the eggs well beaten, turn into a well greased tin and bake one hour or longer in a steady oven. 680—LEMON CAKE. ^ lb. flour 2 eggs. 5 ozs. butter 5 ozs. sugar 1 lemon J cup milk Teaspoonful Elliott's Queens- Candied lemon peel land baking powder. Mode. — Sift the flour and baking powder together ; beat the butter and sugar to a cream, then beat the eggs well and add to the butter and sugar, grate in the rind of Cakes. the lemon and add the juice of half, then by degrees and alternately add the flour and the milk, have ready some round bottomed cup moulds or patty paus, well greased, half fill with the mixture, place a strip of lemon peel on each and bake fifteen or twenty minutes. If baked in the round cup moulds they look like half lemons when turned out. 681—FANCY BREAD. ! 2 lbs. flour 2 teaspoonfuls Elliott's J pt. milk Queensland baking 2 ozs. butter powder Pinch of salt 1 egg. Mode. — Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a basin, mix all well together, rub in the butter until quite fine like sand, beat the egg, and with the milk, mix all into a smooth dough. Work quickly and lightly with your hands on a well floured baking board until quite smooth, divide into small pieces, make into rolls, plaits, and any pretty little shapes. Brush each over with beaten egg, place on a greased and floured baking tin, arranging so that they will not touch while baking, bake from twenty to thirty minutes, according to size of the loaves. Place on a sieve to cool. ^ 682—VICTORIA SANDWICHES i 6 eggs i lb. butter ! 1^ cups flour 1 cup of sugar ! 2 teaspoonfuls Elliott's Queens- Essence of vanilla land baking powder Icing sugar i Jam. I Mode. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, then sift the flour and baking powder and add by degrees, then add the essence. Have ready greased, two or three round sandwich tins (or bake in a square and cut in half afterwards), divide the mixture in equal portions and bake in a steady oven fifteen or twenty Cakes. minutes. Spread with jam before the cakes are quite cold and place one on top of the other, sprinkle well with icing sugar and cut into shapes. 683—ORANGE BISCUITS. i lb. flour ^ lb. sugar Teaspoonful Elliott's Queensland baking powder J lb. butter 6 eggs 1 orange 2 ozs. candied orange peel. Mode. — Cream the butter and sugar together, add the beaten yolks of the eggs, grate in the rind of the orange, finely chop and add the candied lemon peel ; stir in the flour and baking powder sifted, and lastly stir in quickly the whites of the eggs, which have been beaten to a stiff froth. Have ready buttered, some tiny biscuit tins, half fill these and bake for ten or fifteen minutes in a moderate oven, bake a pretty bright brown. 684— CHEESE CAKES. Ij- lbs. powdered loaf sugar 9 eggs 4 lemons ^ lb, butter Puff pastry.