The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes

1 dessert-spoonful Coffee Essence. Icing Sugar. Mix and spread in a layer. For outside of Cake : — 2 dessert-spoonfuls Coffee Essence. 30ZS. icing Sugar. Mix to a smooth paste and pour over the cake. Mr. Elin. Composition Cake. ilb. Flour, ilb. sugar. 3 Eggs. 1 teaspoonful Saleratus. 2 tablespoonfuls of Cream. Nutmeg to taste. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the eggs, and cream with the Saleratus dissolved in it, then the flour and spice. This cake requires much beating. Bake in a quick oven for one hour. Mrs. MacAluster per Miss Monk. Currant Cake. Work 6ozs. butter to a cream; add 6ozs. fine caster sugar, then add three eggs and 90ZS. flour alternately. Put in one drachm of volatile salts mixed in a dessert-spoonful of milk, adding lastly Jib. currants or sultana raisins, and a little candied peel. Mrs. Hawsworth. Genoa Cake. ^lb. Flour. ;jlb. Caster Sugar. 2 Eggs. J teaspoonful Baking Powder. Almonds. 40ZS. Butter. 40ZS. Sultanas. 2ozs. mixed Peel. Stir the butter and sugar together, add the eggs, and beat till the mixture becomes shiny ; beat in the flour and fruit, a little at a time, and last of all put in the baking powder. Put the mixture into tins and sprinkle almonds on the top. Bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. H. P. Cox. Gingerbread. Eight tablespoonfuls of golden syrup, Jib. of moist sugar — beat together. Then add Jib. of butter and 2ozs. of lard. Beat all together. Whip two eggs, add a teacupful of milk. Mix all together. One pound of flour, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 3 teaspoonfuls of ginger; add these gradually to the other ingredients. Mix well. Spread thickly on a well buttered paper in a baking tin. Bake in a moderate oven about 40 minutes. Miss Heyer. Gingerbread Cake. 40ZS. Flour and Treacle. 20zs. Butter and Sugar. 2 Eggs. 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder, ioz. ground Ginger. First melt the butter, then stir in the treacle (or golden syrup), sugar, ginger, flour, and baking powder, then well beat the eggs and add to the rest. Bake half an hour in a quick oven. Ginger Cake (1). £ lb. Flour, fib. Sugar, ilb. Treacle, fib. Butter. 2 dessert-spoonfuls ground Ginger. 1 teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda, f teacupful Milk. 1 Egg. Rub the butter in the flour, add all the dry ingredients; put the treacle, egg and milk together and add to the rest. Place in a well-greased meat tin and bake in a quick oven. Do not make up the fire after the cake has risen. Mrs. H. P. Cox. Ginger Cake (2). ilb. Flour. foz. prepared Ginger, fib. brown Demerara Sugar, fib. Treacle, fib. Butter. 1 Egg. foz. Baking Powder, ioz. Candied Orange Peel. Mix baking powder, ginger and sugar well with the flour, then add treacle and butter warmed. Bake in moderate oven. This makes a large-sized cake. Ground Rice Cake. Weight of 3 Eggs in Flour and ground Rice. Weight of 3 Eggs in Sugar. 3 Eggs. Whip the eggs and sugar together for 20 minutes, then add the flour and rice. Bake in two cake tins in a medium oven. Dust over the tins with lard first, then sugar and flour mixed together in equal quantities. I weigh the ground rice, take off a handful and make up the quantity with flour, and put as much baking powder as will cover a threepenny piece in the ground rice. Lady Methuen.