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The St. Mungo cookery book

1904

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Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Put the flour into a bowl, and mix through it the salt, place the soda and tartar on a plate and make it smooth with the back of a teaspoon. Mix this with the flour, and pour in the buttermilk and mix thoroughly together. Flour the baking board, pour the batter on to it, and add a little flour from time to time to prevent sticking, knead the batter until it becomes a dough stiff enough to roll out. Cut the dough in two pieces and roll each piece out round and to about I an inch in thickness, divide each round in 4 pieces, place on a heated girdle and bake for 15 minutes, turning them once. Mrs Hay, Oakleigh, Crookston, Gla.sgow. TREACLE SCONES (Brown). 1 lb. flour. 2 tablespoon fuls sugar. I oz. butter. I tablespoonful treacle. I breakfastcupful buttermilk. I teaspoonful soda. I teaspoonful ground ginger, i teaspoonful cream of tartar, i teaspoonful cinnamon✪ Treacle Scones (Brown). Rub butter through flour, add other dry ingredients, then treacle and buttermilk, turn out on board and roll out, cut into small rounds with a round cutter, and bake in oven for 10 minutes. Miss Gibson, i'3 Bute Gdns., Hillhead, Glasgow. vanillA cake. 4 07.S. butter. 4 ozs. flour. 3 eggs. 5 ozs. castor sugar. I oz. rice flour. ^ teaspoonful baking powder✪ Vanilla Cake. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the flour and JACK’S CEREAL FOODS FINEST MIDLOTHIAN OATMEAL, Pinhead, Medium, & Fine PURE MIDLOTHIAN OATFLOUR, Special for Babies and Invalids, in One Pound Tins. BEST SCOTCH BARLEY, Pot and Pearl. SPECIAL WHEAT MEAL, for BAKING. B.e;K«sTTooo- ‘ PO R R I N G E ’ Be sure and try it, for it is HOME-GROWN and HOME-MADE The HAPPY UNION of DELICACY and STRENGTH Everybody Likes It, because Happy Days and Dreamless Nights follow Breakfasts or Suppers of PoRRiNGE and Cream MANUFACTURED BY ALEXANDER JACK, Brunstane Mills, Musselburgh, Midlothian Telephone No. 325 Central Agent for the Famous Royal Diamond and Leatherbum Coals From the Colliery •0£> •<c To the CoaUScuttle Om Rm FORREST, 126 Lothian Road DEPOTS AT ALL STATIONS. PRICE LISTS ON APPLICATION. Quotations made for Delivery by Rail or Sea, or for quantities over specllled periods 148 eggs alternately, and a little vanilla flavouring. Baking powder last. Bake in moderate oven i hour. Cream for Cake- 2 ozs. butter beaten to a cream. 6 ozs. icing sugar. I tablespoonful of cream. Vanilla to taste. When the cake is cold split and spread with cream VINEGAR CAKE. 6 ozs. butter. 6 ozs. ground loaf sugar. 4 eggs. I cupful of milk, t lb. flour. 1 large half-teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar. I lb. sultanas (or mixed peel if preferred)✪ Vinegar Cake. Beat to a cream the butter, add the sugar and beat for a short time, drop in the eggs one by one, beating well all the time. Take a separate dish and mix together the milk and carbonate of soda and vinegar, pour this into the other mixture and stir thoroughly, then add the flour gradually, next the sultanas or peel, and mix well together. Butter a tin well, and bake for i| hours. Mrs G.^rvie. WALNUT CAKE (American). 1 cupful of sugar. 2 cupfuls flour. I cupful walnuts. I cupful stoned raisins I teaspoonful cream of tartar. ^ cupful of milk. 1 cupful of butter. 2 eggs. ^ teaspoonful baking soda✪ Walnut Cake (American).