Cookery for every household

Sieve the flour into a warm basin, rub in the butter until free from lumps, and then make a well in the centre. Cream the yeast with a tea-spoonful of the sugar, add to it the warm milk, and strain into the centre of the flour. Add also the eggs, mix all the ingredients gradually, and then beat well until smooth and light. Cover the basin and put it in a warm place until the dough is well risen, about 11 hours. Then add the remainder of the castor sugar, grated lemon rind, and candied peel finely chopped, and mix them well in. Make up the dough into small buns, putting them on a greased and floured tin, and place them in a warm place to “ prove ” for a few minutes. Then brush them over with beaten egg and sprinkle them with coarsely-crushed loaf sugar. Bake the buns in a good oven until nicely browned and thoroughly cooked. Time to bake, 15 to 20 minutes. Probable cost, Is. 4 d. 2684. Chapel Windows Genoese pastry in three Raspberry or apricot colours. jam. Almond paste. Cut the three colours of Genoese pastry in slices of an equal thickness (about 1 inch) and of the same size. Spread them with some nice jam, and place them one on the top of the other. Press well, and with a sharp knife cut in slices of the same thickness as the slices of Genoese pastry. Spread these slices again with jam, and place them again one on top of the other, reversing them this time so as to form checks of colour. Press well together, and trim if necessary. Make some almond paste Chapel Windows and work it on the board with icing sugar until quite smooth and elastic. Roll out into a thin sheet, using more icing sugar to prevent its sticking, and then roll across with a fluted rolling-pin, first one way and then the other, so as to form checks. Wrap the cake in this sheet of almond paste, joining it very neatly underneath. Trim the ends of the cake, and cut in slices as required. Probable cost. Id. per slice. | lb. flour. | tea-sp. carbonate of soda. £ lb. syrup. 2 eggs. . £ lb. sugar. 1 tea-sp. ground ginger. 2685. Coburg Cakes £ tea-sp. ground cinnamon. | tea-sp. allspice. 1£ oz. butter. A few sweet almonds. Sieve all the dry ingredients except the almonds into a basin, and make a well in the centre. Melt the butter and syrup in a small saucepan, and pour them into the middle of the dry ingredients. Add the eggs well beaten, and mix all together. Have ready some small patty tins well greased, and with a half-blanched almond at the foot of each. Half fill the tins with the mixture, and bake them in a moderate oven until well risen and firm to the touch. Time to bake, £ to § hour. Probable cost, 8d. 2686. Chocolate Cakes 4 oz. chocolate. 3 oz. butter. 2 oz. castor sugar. 3 eggs. 3 oz. flour. £ tea-sp. baking powder.