The Samaritan cookery book

2 ozs. orange peel, and a few almonds 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder A little sweet milk A few drops essence, lemon or vanilla Butter and flour cake tin. Prepare Sultanas, and cut up peel finely. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, drop in one egg and one spoonful of flour, and beat well. Repeat until all the eggs and flour are added. Add milk, baking powder, and essence. Mix well, put into prepared cake tin, and bake in a moderate oven for ij hours. Miss Nancy Bell, 48 Grant Street. SCOTCH SHORTBREAD. x lb. of good powdered butter | 2 lbs. of the best flour 6 ozs. of sifted sugar Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, thoroughly dissolving the sugar, add the flour slowly, working it into a nice dough. Knead this into pans i J inches deep. - Bake slowly in a moderately heated oven till it shows a light brown color. Mrs. Wm. Lambie. SHORTCAKE (Delicious). 1 lb. butter | lb. flour \ lb. cornflour 1 or 2 eggs 2 small teaspoonfuls of baking powder 2 large tablespoonfuls of fine white sugar Some jam, or fresh strawberries Cream the butter and sugar together, and still beating, add the yolks of eggs. Mix the flour, cornflour, and baking powder together, and add gradually, a little at a time, to the other ingredients. It may be necessary to add a little milk, as the paste must be rather soft. Roll out once and put on a well-greased ashet or dinner plate. Pinch the edges with the fingers, and prick the paste all over with a fork so that it will not rise too high. Put in a good oven and bake from 20 to 30 minutes. When cool, fill with jam or fresh strawberries well mixed with sugar, and cover with the whites stiffly beaten, and flavoured with fine white sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice. Mrs. Macdonald, Rockville, Motherwell. SPONGE CAKE. J lb. sifted sugar | J lb. fine flour 3 fresh eggs Whisk sugar and eggs for 15 minutes, add very gradually the flour, which has been previously nicely dried in the oven. Stir as little as possible in the process. Put this in two greased sandwich tins, and bake in a well-heated oven for a quarter of an hour. Turn out to cool. Icing for Sponge Cake. \ lb. icing sugar | 2 spoonfuls of milk x dessertspoonful of fresh butter. [illustration: ANOTHER CASE FOR K. & M.] IT WILL PAY YOU ^g^to consider the Kimball & mS f Morton Gradual Payment System. Absolutely your own on first payment. WRINGER ROLLERS RE-COVERBD. We do not send Collectors , you call or send the Payments Monthly. SEWING MACHINES, WRINGERS, MANGLES, and CYC LES, Can be bought on our LITTLE-AT-A-TIME PLAN. WE UNDERTAKE REPAIRS OP ALL KINDS. NICKEL-PLATING & ENAMELLING. DISH COVERS, RANGE PARTS, and FIRE IRONS Made Beautiful and Easily Kept. I \ WHY waste all your strength polishing Steel ? when a rub with a f! Duster will do! I And WHY ? sit and look at an ugly black Grate when, for a few II shillings, you can make it a thing of beauty and a joy for ever I Our Parcel Carriages Lift and Deliver Goods. KIMBALL & MORTON, Ltd., SEWING AND WRINGING MACHINE MANUFACTURERS, HUMBER AND “ CITY LINE ” CYCLES, Bothwell Circus, Xj^SlSGtO W" . TELEPHONES— National, No. 2 Argyle ; Corporation, No. 92. Telegraphic Address: “OSCILLATOR, GLASGOW.” ESTABLISHED 1867. Beat the whole together to a cream, add half a teaspoonful of lemon essence and colour with pink sugar. Take the two cakes and place them together, with jam or jelly between and ice.