The royal baker and pastry cook

1 scant pound flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, pinch salt, 1 tablespoon anise-seed. Beat eggs and sugar together 30 minutes, then add anise, flour mixed with powder, and roll out thin. Cut in fancy shapes and bake on flat tins in quick oven. Albert Cakes. — Yolks 6 eggs, white 1 egg, 5 ounces sugar, 5^4 ounces blanched and chopped almonds, 3 ounces flour, 1/2 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 ounce chopped candied orange peel, Mi teaspoon extract cinnamon, pinch cloves, grated rind lemon. Bake in small patty-pans in moderate oven. Buttercups. — 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, yolks 9 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, % cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Bake in patty-pans, ice with boiled icing, tinted yellow. Jumbles. — 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour. 1/2 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Rub together the butter and sugar ; add the beaten eggs, and flour sifted with the powder ; flour the board, roll out the dough rather thin, cut with jumble-cutter, or any you may have; roll in sugar, lay out on greased tin (fig. XIII); bake in fairly hot oven 10 minutes. Peanut Jumbles. — 1 1/2 cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 6 eggs, 1V<2 pints flour, ^ cup corn-starch, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Mi cup chopped peanuts, mixed with Mj cup granulated sugar. Rub the butter and sugar smooth ; add the beaten eggs, the flour, corn-starch, and powder, sifted together, and the extract; flour the board, roll out the dough rather thin, cut out with biscuit-cutter, roll in the chopped peanuts and sugar, lay on greased baking-tin (fig. XIII) ; bake in rather hot oven 8 to 10 minutes. Little Spice Cakes. — 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 tablespoon black coffee, V4 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon, 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg, 2 ounces com-starch, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix as for cakes with butter, and bake in pattypans in a hot oven. Little Chocolate Cakes. — 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar. Mi cup water, IMi cups flour, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons grated chocolate melted over hot water, 1 teaspoon extract vanilla. Put together as for cake with butter ; bake in patty-pans in moderate oven. Scotch Cakes. — 1 pound flour, \>2. pound butter. Ml teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, % cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon extract vanilla. Mix flour and baking powder. Riib in butter as for biscuits. Work in the sugar and flavoring. This gives a rather crumbly dough. Work with hands to make it adhere, pat out in cakes, sprinkle with caraway-seed. Bake in moderate oven. Very rich. Spencer Cakes. — 2 cups sugar, 8 eggs, pints flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons coriander-seed, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Beat eggs and sugar together, until they get thick and white; add flour sifted with powder, the seed, and extract ; mix into rather thick sponge ; drop in spoonfuls on greased tin (flg. XIV), bake in hot oven 5 or 6 minutes. Rice Cakes. — Mi cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, IMi cups rice flour, cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, Mi cup cream, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. B^t the eggs and