The royal baker and pastry cook

sugar together 10 minutes; add the butter, melted ; sift together flour, rice flour, and the powder, which add to the eggs, etc., with the cream and the extract ; mix into a thin batter, and bake in patty-pans, well greased, in a hot oven, 10 minutes. Delicious Little Cakes can be made by making a rich jumble-paste — rolling out in any desired shape; cut some paste in thick, narrow strips and lay around your cakes so as to form a deep, cup-Uke edge ; place on a well-buttered tin and bake. When done, fill with iced fruit, prepared as follows : Take rich, ripe peaches (canned ones will do if fine and well drained from all juice) cut in halves ; plums, strawberries, pineapples cut in squares or small triangles, or any other available fruit, and dip in the white of an egg that has been very slightly beaten, and then in pulverized sugar, and lay in the center of your cakes. Cinnamon Cakes. — Whites 4 eggs. Mi cup sugar, 1 cup flour. Mi teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon. Mix as for cakes without butter, and bake in patty -pans in a quick oven. Ice with water icing flavored with cinnamon extract. Cigarettes. — Mix and sift 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt. Rub in 2 tablespoons butter, add 1/2 teaspoon extract cinnamon, 10 drops extract cloves, and milk to mix to a rather firm dough. Knead till smooth, cut off bits size of hickory nuts and mold into shape of cigarettes. Take 1/2 cup granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon, mix, and roU each cigarette in it. Lay on greased pans, bake in moderate oven. Drop Cakes. — 1 cup butter. Mi cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 small teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 pint flour, 1 cup washed and picked currants, 1 teaspoon each extract nutmeg and lemon, ^ cup milk. Rub the butter and sugar to a white, light cream ; add the eggs, beat 10 minutes ; add the flour and powder sifted together, the milk and extracts. Mix into a rather firm batter, and drop with a spoon on a greased baking-tin (fig. XIV) ; bake in a quick oven 10 minutes. Ginger Snaps,— Mi cup lard. Mi cup butter, 1 large cup brown sugar, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon extract ginger, 1 teaspoon each extract cinnamon and cloves, 1 quart flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Rub to a smooth paste the lard, butter, and sugar ; then rub it into the flour and powder sifted together. Mix into a firm dough with the water and extracts. Roll out the dough thin on a floured board, cut out with a round biscuit-cutter, and bake on greased pan (fig. XIV), in a hot, steady oven, 8 minutes. Edenkobers. — 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 pound almonds, pounded to paste, 1/2 pound chopped citron, 1/4 pound chopped candied lemon peel, 2 tablespoons drained honey, 2 cups flour, % teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix to a paste, roll out, and cut in small cakes. Bake in moderate oven. Hermits. — 3 eggs, 1 cup butter, IMz cups sugar, 1 cup chopped raisins, 2 tablespoons chopped citron, 1 teaspoon each extract cloves. allspice, and cinnamon, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, flour to roll out. Cut in rounds, bake in moderate oven.