Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book

2 cups of sugar 1 cup of butter Yolks of 4 eggs 1½ cups of cold water Whites of 3 eggs 3 tablespoonfuls of Elliott's Grated cocoanut Queensland baking 3 cups of flour powder. Mode. — Beat the sugar and butter together for twenty minutes, add the yolks and whites of the eggs beaten well (separately), then the flour, baking powder and water, mix all well together and bake in two sandwich tins ; when cold, ice the tops, then put the other cake on top, ice the whole of it and cover it with cocoanut. 700— CINNAMON BISCUITS. J lb. sugar J lb. butter 3 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon Elour. Mode.— Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the cinnamon and enough flour to make it into a thick paste, roll out very thin and cut into rounds; bake in a quick oven on a tin with a little flour sprinkled on it. Cakes. 701— BRANDY SNAPS. ½ lb. flour 2 ozs. butter f lb. moist sugar J lb, treacle. Mode.— Mix all together, roll out on a floured slab to the thickness of a shilling, and with a plain cutter, cut them five or six inches in diameter; put them in slightly greased tins and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes. 702— ROCK CAKES. f lb. flour 1 teaspoonful of Elliott's ^ lb. sugar Queensland baking 2 ozs. candied orange or powder lemon peel ^ lb. currants 2 tablespoonfuls of milk ^ butter 2 eggs. Mode.— Put all the dry ingredients into a basin, beat the butter to a cream and beat the eggs with the milk; now add the butter to the ingredients in the basin, then mix to a very stiff dough with the eggs and milk. Bake on a greased baking tin in little rocky pieces in a quick oven for twenty minutes. 703— DESSERT CAKES. 2 tablespoonfuls of butter 2 eggs 4 tablespoonfuls of milk 1 cup of flour 1 cup of sugar A few drops of essence of vanilla or lemon. Mode.— Mix the flour, sugar, essence and butter together, then add the eggs well beaten up, and lastly the milk. Bake in a moderately quick oven. 704— CARAWAY CAKE. ^ cup of butter 1 cup of sugar 3 eggs 2 cups of flour Caraway seeds. Cakes. Mode.— Beat the butter to a cream, then add the sugar to it, beat well, thoroughly mix the yolks and the whites of the eggs separately, add the flour to them and mix all together. Bake in a quick oven for fifteen minutes. 705— COCOANUT BISCUITS. i lb. sugar 3 eggs ^ cup of butter 2 teaspoon fuls of Elliott's f lb. flour Queensland baking 3 tablespoonfuls cocoanut powder. Mode.— Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, mix the baking powder and cocoanut with the flour and add to the butter and sugar, then add the eggs (well beaten). Bake for ten minutes in a hot oven. 706— A NICE PLAIN CAKE. 1 tablespoonful of butter 1 teaspoonful of Elliott's 2 tablespoonfuls of dripping Queensland baking 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar powder 5 tablespoonfuls of flour 2 eggs 1 handful of sultanas 2 pieces of lemon peel. Mode.— Mix the yolks of the eggs, butter, dripping and sugar all well together, add the whites of the eggs well beaten and a little milk; sift in the flour and baking powder, and lastly add the sultanas. Bake in a hot oven in a greased tin covered with brown paper. 707— ORANGE CAKE. 6 eggs The juice of 2 oranges 2^ cups of flour 1 large teaspoonful of 1 cup of sugar Elliott's Queensland A pinch of salt baking powder.