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Gas cookery

1885

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Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
METHOD. — Take a basin and sieve the pound of flour, in which rub the butter and add the sultanas and castor sugar. Mix all well together and add not quite the half-pint of cold milk. Turn out on to the board and knead well. Form it into two rounds and place them on a flat baking sheet, and cut each round across and across, so as to form six scones from each round. Brush them over with an egg, and prick them on the top with a fork. Bake in a quick oven from 1 5 to 20 minutes. Note. — That the scones must be placed on the open grid shelf under browning shelf at the first, and the gas is lowered every five minutes. Mbole /llieal Scones. Ingredients. — 1 lb. Whole Meal, 1 teaspoonful of Carbonate 138 BREAD AND CAKES. of Soda, 2 teaspoonsful of Cream of Tartar, i oz. Castor Sugar, 3 ozs. of Butter, and half a pint of MilkMbole /llieal Scones. Method. — Rub the butter into the meal, then mix the soda, cream of tartar, and sugar together and mingle all well in the basin, mixing it into a stiff dough with the milk. Form into two rounds, and cut each round across and across into six. Bake on a greased baking sheet about twenty minutes, and brush over with a little milk when half baked. Uea Scones. Ingredients.- — 18 oz. Flour, 2 oz Castor Sugar, 2 oz. Butter, 2 oz. Sultanas, X oz- Carbonate of Soda, X oz- Cream of Tartar, X pint Milk, 1 white of Egg, whiskedUea Scones. Method. — Rub the butter into the flour, and mix the sugar, soda, and cream of tartar together and add, with the Sultanas. Mix with the milk and white of egg to a stiff dough and form into four rounds, brush over with the yolk, and bake for 15 minutes in a hot oven. When half baked they should be turned right over. Swiss IRoll. Ingredients. — 2 Eggs and their weight in Castor Sugar, 2 tablespoonsful of Milk, 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder, 1 tea- spoonful Essence of Vanilla, 3 ozs. Flour. Method. — Beat the eggs and castor sugar well together for fifteen minutes, the first seven minutes BREAD AND CAKES. 139 over boiling water, mix flour and baking powder together and pass through a sieve. Then mix all well together and add the milk, and pour it on to a baking sheet lined with kitchen paper, spread flat with a knife, and bake for seven minutes. Spread with jam and roll up, and sprinkle some castor sugar over. Note. — Place the Swiss rollSwiss Roll on the open grid shelf in the middle of oven under the hot plate, and only have gas flames half an inch long. Lower the gas still more after five minutes. Hfternoon Cea Cakes. Ingredients. — X lb. Vienna Flour, 2 ozs. Butter, X oz. Castor Sugar, yolk of 1 Egg, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder, 1 gill of MilkAfternoon Tea Cakes. Method. — Rub the butter into ^ lb. of the flour, and put the baking powder with the other lb. of flour, to be added after the butter is rubbed in. Add the castor sugar, beat the egg with the milk, and mix quickly. Roll the dough out and cut in any fancy shapes, and brush over with milk when partly baked. To be eaten hot, split and buttered. Mlsbecb Cea Cakes. Ingredients. — 1 lb. Self Rising Flour, X lb. of Castor Sugar, 3 ozs. Lard or Butter, 1 Egg, iX gills of MilkMlsbecb Cea Cakes. Method. — Rub the butter into the flour, then add 140 BREAD AND CAKES.