The Samaritan cookery book

5 lb. citron, lemon, and orange peel. 1 lb. sugar. 1 lb. flour. 1 packet mixed spice. 1 teacupful milk. 1 nutmeg (grated). 1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful ground ginger. 1 teaspoonful Jamaica pepper. 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda. [illustration: recipe card] For Crust. lbs. flour. I 1$ teaspoonfuls sugar. 6 ozs. butter. A pinch of salt. | teaspoonful baking powder. I 1 egg. r A little cold water. Crumble the butter finely amongst the flour. Add the sugar, salt, powder. Beat up the egg and add half a teacupful of water to it. Set a little aside in a cup. Make a stiff paste with the remainder. Roll it out into a thin sheet, cut a piece for bottom and one for top of cake, and pieces for the sides. Butter the inside of cakepan, line well with paste, brush with egg. Moisten the fruit, &c., with milk, pack into cakepan. Cover, brush with egg, prick with fork. Bake 2\ to 3 hours in moderate oven. Mrs. Burnet, Torphins. CAKE DELICIOUS. £ lb. flour. I 3 eggs. ^ lb. sugar. i teacupful milk. | lb. butter. | i teaspoonful cream of tartar. 2 teaspoonfuls soda. Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs well beaten, then milk and flour and powders ; bake in a quick oven. Miss Andrew, 2 Wellington Square, Ayr. DEFECTIVES SEYESIGHT. John Trotter Ophthalmic Optician, (BY EXAMINATION), 28 GORDON Nearly Opposite CENTRAL STATION ( Main Entrance ). Business Hours : to 6.30 p.m. SATURDAYS, 4.30. NOTE.— Mr. Trotter attends daily to thor- oughly eyesight, CHARGE, specially equipped private testing rooms. Suitable Glasses Supplied, FROM 25/0 UPWARDS. CAKE DELICIOUS. i lb. flour. | 6 eggs. i lb. butter. 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, s lb. sugar. I 1 teacupful sweet milk. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream with the hand ; have ready the flour mixed with baking powder, and still with the hand beat in gradually one by one the eggs, with alternate quantities of flour and milk till all are used up, when the cake is ready for the oven. The eggs are dropped in whole, one by one. Put in greased tin and bake in good oven hours. Mrs. Ogilvie, The Manse, Cumbernauld. FRUIT CAKE. 1 lb. flour. £ lb. sugar. 6 ozs. butter. 1 lb. Sultana raisins. 1 lb. currants. J lb. orange peel. i lb. almonds. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. £ teaspoonful essence of lemon. .3 eggs, ij teacupfuls of milk. Beat butter and sugar to a cream. Whisk eggs for five minutes and add alternately with flour and milk. Give the whole a very good beating and mix in prepared fruit, essence, and baking powder. Pour into a greased and lined cake tin and bake in a hot oven for about two hours. Miss J. T. Rankin, Glasgow. GINGERBREAD. 2 teacupfuls flour. 1 teacupful sugar. 1 teacupful milk. A pinch of salt. ij tablespoonfuls of dripping. 2 tablespoonfuls treacle or syrup. 1 teaspoonful bi-carbonate of soda. Any flavouring that is preferred. Warm dripping and syrup together and mix among dry things. Bake in a shallow tin in a moderate oven. A few blanched almonds may be added if liked. Mrs. PIolder, West Kirby. GINGERBREAD. 1 lb. flour. 1 lb. fine oatmeal. £ lb. moist sugar. 6 ozs. butter or dripping. h pint treacle or syrup. A little ginger, ground. 1 teaspoonful bi-carbonate of soda. Pinch of salt. Rub butter among flour and mix all the things together, adding a little milk to make it moist enough. Bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. Holder, West Kirby. GOOD GINGERBREAD.