The Samaritan cookery book

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add well-beaten eggs and cornflour alternately till all is mixed. Beat well for 25 minutes. Pour into a large flat tin which has been buttered and papered, and bake. Cool a little in tin, and cut in squares. Miss Bessie Keddie, Kelvinside. SNOW CAKE. 18 ozs. arrowroot £ lb. fresh butter \ lb. castor sugar 3 whole eggs and 3 whites 4 tablespoonfuls of cream A little almond flavouring Agent for INCANDESCENT LIGHT ALEXANDER FORREST, Furnishing Ironmonger, Plumber, Gasfitter, & Jobbing Smith Crates Cut, Pieced, and Berlin Blacked in a Superior Style. Gas Fittings, Brass Curtain Poles, &c., Cleaned, Re-bronzed, and made as new. Gas Fires, Stoves, and Hot Water Apparatus Fitted-up. Tile Hearths Lifted & Re-laid ; Locks Repaired & Fitted with Keys. ALL KINDS OF GENERAL JOBBING DONE ON THE PREMISES. LAMP SHADES A SPECIALITY. Made to Order in Silk and Paper. LATEST SHAPES AND STYLES. 7 Bute Terrace, or 715 Pollokshaws Road, STRATH BUNGO. Corporation Telephone, Z5S, Cream the butter and sugar ; add the yolks of eggs alternately with the arrowroot ; stir in the cream and flavouring. Beat whites to a stiff froth and add gently, but mixing thoroughly. Pour into a buttered and papered cake tin and bake in a moderate oven. The arrowroot must be rubbed once or twice through a sieve before mixing. Miss Watson, Motherwell. SPICE CAKE. i lb. flour 6 ozs. butter £ lb. orange peel i oz. ground cloves i oz. ground cinnamon i oz. Jamaica pepper £ lb. sugar i lb. currants. i£ teaspoonfuls soda Buttermilk Mix dry ingredients. Whip butter to a cream, add to mixture. Add sufficient buttermilk to make a thick batter. Bake in hot oven. Note. — Sweet milk may be used, but buttermilk is better. Miss Bowie, Glasgow. SPONGE CAKE. 4 eggs I 7 ozs. sugar 6 ozs. flour (sifted) Break the eggs into a small bowl and boil the sugar in half a teacupful of water. Warm a large bowl very well and put the eggs into it, and beat them slightly and add the boiled sugar. Whisk briskly for 20 minutes, and then add gently the flour and a little flavouring. Butter and paper a small cake tin, pour the mixture in, and bake for half an hour. Miss B. Keddie, Kelvinside. SULTANA CAKE. 1 lb. of flour £ lb. of butter \ lb. of castor sugar £ lb. of Sultanas Grated rind of a lemon 4 ozs. of peel 2 ozs. almonds 5 eggs 1 gill ©f milk 1 teaspoonful of baking powder Cream the butter and sugar, sift in the flour, salt, and baking powder ; add the eggs one at a time and the milk ; beat all well together for io minutes, add the fruit and grated lemon rind and mix. Butter and paper a tin, pour in the mixture, and bake in a moderate oven. Miss Watson, Motherwell. WHITE CAKE. i teacupful of butter teacupfuls of sugar 3 teacupfuls of flour 5 teacupful of milk i heaped teaspoonful of baking powder i teaspoonful of essence of lemon 4 eggs Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten and the milk, and mix well. Then add the flour mixed with the baking powder, and last of all the essence. Bake in a moderate oven for ij hours. Cherry Cake. Same as white cake, with a cupful of preserved cherries, cut in halves, added. Ginger Cake. Same as white cake, with a cupful of preserved ginger added. Miss Kershaw. WHITE CAKE, J lb. flour 6 ozs. butter 6 ozs. fine sugar J lb. Sultanas, or Sultanas and cherries. 3 or 4 eggs