Cookery for every household

Time to bake, 25 to 30 minutes. Probable cost, Is. 3d. 2804. Orange Cake 6 oz. Vienna flour. The grated rind of 1 orange 3 eggs. 1 tea-sp. baking powder. 5 oz. castor sugar. Icing.— I lb. icing sugar, and the juice of 1 orange. Sieve the sugar into a basin, grate the orange rind on the top of it, and rub these two together with the tips of the fingers, until they are thoroughly blended. Add the eggs to the orange sugar, and beat with a wire whisk about 15 minutes until smooth and creamy. Then add the flour dried and sifted, and also the baking powder. Mix these in very lightly, and pour the mixture into a tin that has been greased and dusted out with a mixture of flour and sugar. Bake in a quick oven until lightly browned and firm to the touch. When ready, turn carefully on to a sieve to cool. For the Icing.— Sieve the icing sugar into a basin, and add gradually enough strained orange juice to make the icing just soft enough to pour. Mix well until smooth, and then pour over the cake. The cake may be decorated with chopped pistachio nuts, crystallised violets, or small sections of preserved fruits. Note. — Instead of being iced, this cake may be split when cold, and spread with the following cream mixture : Whip a gill of double cream until quite thick, sweeten to taste, and flavour with orange flavouring. Time to bake, 20 to 30 minutes. Probable cost, Is. with the hands. This may take some little time, but no liquid must be used. Form into a round flat cake about 1 J inches thick, and prick all over with a fork. Place the cake on a baking tin, and tie a band of double paper round it. Bake in a moderate oven until the cake feels firm and is a nice brown colour. Allow it to cool on the tin before removing it, and take oS the band of paper. Note. — This cake should be rolled in paper and kept in an air-tight tin box, and then broken in pieces when required. Time to bake, 1 to 1J hours. Probable cost. Is. 2d. 2807. Potato Cake \ lb. cooked potatoes. 1 oz. butter. 2 oz. sugar. A pinch of salt. 2 oz. candied peel. Orange flower water. 2 eggs. A few chopped almonds. The potatoes must be very dry and mealy. Sieve them into a basin, and add the salt, sugar, candied peel finely shred, and the butter melted. Flavour with orange flower water or any other flavouring preferred. Stir in the yolks of eggs, and, lastly, the whites beaten to a stifl froth. Pour the mixture into a flat cake tin that has been greased and dusted out with flour and sugar, sprinkle the top with chopped almonds, and bake in a moderate oven. Sprinkle with sugar and serve the cake either hot ob cold. Time to bake, about J hour. Probable cost, 8d. 2805. Orange Sandwich Cake 6 oz. flour. 1 or 2 oz. butter. J lb. sugar. 1 gill milk. 2tea-sps. baking powder 1 table-sp. orange juice. Grated rind J orange. Filling. 1 gill orange juice. Grated rind | orange. Juice \ lemon. 1 dessert-sp. cornflour. 1 table-sp. castor sugar.