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 flavouring✪ PLASMON 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 egg✪ PLASMON CHEESE CAKES.
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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.
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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 (peachshaped 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 flavouring ; g teaspoonful 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 egg.
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.
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