Gas cookery

Macaroon Biscuits. Ingredients. — ]4. lb. ground Almonds, 1 lb. Castor Sugar, 1 oz. ground Rice, 4 whites of Eggs. Method.— Place the almonds, sugar, and ground rice in a basin, then whisk the whites stiffly and add. Then lay out teaspoonfuls of the mixture on wafer paper, and bake in a hot oven. Take out the browning shelf. Bath Buns. Ingredients. — 1 lb. Vienna Flour, V2 oz. German Yeast, 1 teaspoonful Castor Sugar, 1 gill tepid Milk, 2 ozs, Sultanas, 2 ozs. Butter, 2 ozs. Castor Sugar, 3 ozs. Candied Peel, 3 Eggs, 2 ozs. crushed Lump Sugar. METHOD. — Cream the yeast and teaspoonful of castor sugar together, add the tepid milk and strain into half the flour to form sponge. Let it rise an hour, then rub the butter into the other y2 lb. of flour, adding sultanas, castor sugar, and candied peel, and the sponge from the other basin. Now beat in the eggs well, one at a time with the hand, and set it to rise again. When well risen, form into eight rocky buns, sprinkle the crushed lump sugar on top, also a few comfits ; let them prove, and then bake. Place them on a grid shelf underneath the browning shelf in oven, reducing the gas every five minutes. Cocoanut Buns. Ingredients — X'lk. self rising Flour, 3 ozs. Butter, X Ik. Castor Sugar, X Ik. dessicated Cocoanut, 1 Egg, 1 gill Milk. Method. — Rub the butter into the flour, add the sugar and cocoanut, then the eggs and the milk. Take two forks and place the mixture in rocky cakes on a baking sheet. Bake ten minutes. Cornflour Buns. Ingredients. — X Ik. Cornflour, 2 ozs. Sugar, 2 ozs of Butter, 2 ozs. of Flour, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder, 2 Eggs, Vanilla Essence. Method. — Cream the sugar and butter, beat in one egg, mix the flour, corn flour and baking powder together, add half of it to the mixture in basin, then the other egg and the remainder of flour and cornflour ; lastly, the essence of vanilla. Bake in patty pans ten minutes. BREAD AND CAKES. 12 5„ French Buns. Ingredients. — X lb. self rising Flour, 2 ozs. Castor Sugar,, the grated rind of 1 Lemon, 2 ozs. Butter, 1 Egg, X gill Milk, 1 oz. Candied Peel, a few Comfits. Method. — Rub the butter into the flour, then add the lemon rind, castor sugar, and the candied peel chopped. Mix with the egg and milk, form into buns, and place a few comfits on the top of each. Bake about fifteen minutes. Victoria Buns. Ingredients. — X lb- Flour, 2 ozs. Corn Flour, 3 ozs. Sugar, 3 ozs. Butter, 2 ozs. Citron, 1 Egg, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder. Method. — Cream the butter and sugar, then add the egg, and after it is well beaten the citron chopped finely and the flour, baking powder, and corn flour mixed. Butter some patty pans, and put about a tablespoonful of the mixture in each. Bake about ten minutes. Bride Cake. 1 lb. Flour, X lb- Butter, 1 gill Rum, 1 gill Treacle, X lb. Sugar, iX lbs. Currants, X lb. chopped Sultanas, X lb- mixed Peel, some grated Nutmeg, X lb- ground Almonds, 7 Eggs. Method. — Pass the flour and grated nutmeg through a sieve together, add the currants, sultanas,