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Plasmon 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.
Method. — Put butter and sugar in a bowl, beat 10 minutes ; add yolks of eggs, and beat io minutes. Beat whites to stiff froth ; add flour mixed with Plasmon ; next add a little of egg and flour alternately, stirring gently all the time. Lastly, add baking powder ; pour mixture into buttered moulds (peach- shaped for preference) ; bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Colour with carmine and sift sugar over. Garnish with vine leaves. 109. ALMOND CAKES.— Ingredients : 2 oz. flour; 202. castor sugar ; 2 oz. butter; 1 egg ; pinch salt; g teaspoonful vanilla ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon. Method. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; beat the egg and add it alternately with the flour (the salt and Plasmon should be previously mixed with the flour) ; then add the vanilla. Beat the mixture well. Grease a shallow baking tin and line with paper, spread the mixture over evenly, and bake in a quick oven for 15 minutes. Just before it is done brush over with the white of 1 egg beaten up with 1 oz. sugar ; then strew 2 oz. chopped almonds over and return to the oven, and bake till a fawn colour. Turn out and cut into triangle shapes. 110. PLASMON TEA BUNS. — Ingredients : 2 oz. butter; 2 oz. sugar ; 5 oz. flour ; 1 large teaspoonful Plasmon; 1 egg, divided and beaten separately ; 2 oz. dried cherries ; 1 oz. angelica, cut up thinly ; a few drops vanilla flavouringPLASMON TEA BUNS ; g tea- spoonful baking powder. Method. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add yolk of egg, and beat well ; then add flavouring ; mix dry ingredients on plate and add them to the ingredients in the basin, and a little milk if required — it must not be mixed too stiffly. Lastly, add the white of egg, beaten to stiff froth ; put the mixture into small greased tins, and bake in hot oven for about 15 minutes; or it may be baked in one large tin, when it will take about 1 hour to cook. 111. PLASMON CHEESE CAKES.— Ingredients : l pint milk ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon ; 1 oz. butter ; 1 oz. sugar ; 1 oz. flour ; 1 oz. almonds, blanched and chopped ; a few drops essence of almonds ; 1 eggPLASMON CHEESE CAKES. 52 Method. — Put the milk into a saucepan ; when warm, sprinkle in i teaspoonful of Plasmon ; bring it to the boil, and let it boil for 2 minutes, stirring well all the time ; then pour into a clean basin. Put the butter and flour into the saucepan and stir over the fire for a few minutes ; then add the sugar, flavouring, the egg (well-beaten), and the milk with the Plasmon dissolved in it ; stir all together, and boil for about 3 minutes ; then stir in the chopped almonds. Line some patty-pans with flaky pastry, put some of the cheese cake mixture in each, and bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. 112. CHERRY CAKES. — Ingredients: For Pastry — 3 os. flour ; 1 oz. Plasmon; 2 oz. butter ; salt ; yolk of (jw and water. For Mixture — 2 oz. butter ; 2 oz. sugar; 1 oz. dried cherries ; 1 oz. peel ; 1 oz. cake crumbs ; % . oz. cornflour ; 1 egg. Method.- — To make the mixture, cream the butter and sugar together, and add the rest of the dry ingredients and the eggs gradually until it becomes like a thick cream. Make the pastry by rubbing the butter into the flour and adding the Plasmon, mixing with the egg and water until it becomes a thick paste. Roll out and cut into rounds ; put pastry into greased tins, and add a teaspoonful of the mixture. Bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes.