The English-Chinese cookery book

WORK a quarter of a pound of butter into a pound of fine flour, then mix it with half a pound of treacle, quarter of a pound of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of ground ginger, and one of caraway seeds. Work it all well together, and form it into cakes not larger than a dollar, place them on a baking tin in a moderate oven, and bake for twenty minutes, when they will be dry and crisp. Jtli? H B ^ ■# A titi & $ tX SI IP M ft Hell — if vffi Tjf yfl,± jtt h m m g,& & miff - m i# « m m ^ m - m m m a m % m is ^ m « m -r m » m m. rfa m tl -i bvlfo* & ® £ W » - ft MZi co« §§.^s — m SNOW CAKE. BEAT eight ounces of fresh butter to a cream before the fire, and add eight ounces of best sugar pounded and one pound of arrow-root, beating the mixture all the time. When well mixed, stir in the whites of seven eggs whisked to a very stiff froth, and a little flavouring of essence of lemon to taste. Again whisk the mixture for nearly half an hour, pour it into a buttered tin, and bake it in a moderately heated oven from one hour and a quarter to an hour and a half. *r m jtt m ffl m w.fkim sn * * * % m ia TC = — * 'U' M t5 m gg j|| J\ &. S — lit M Tl ta k 0 a Bt ,m i 7k m a a &«■ m m w is HONEY CAKE. MIX half a pound of sugar with three pounds and a halt ot Hour, ana one tablespoonful of ground or grated ginger, and work the whole into a smooth dough with half a pound of butter beaten to a cream, and one pound and a half of honey, and one teaspoon ful of carbonate of soda dissolved in a little hot water. Roll it a quarter of an inch thick, cut it into small cakes, and bake them twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Beat seven ounces of butter to a cream, and stir into it a pound of powdered sugar, and a pound of sifted flour; then add the whites of eight eggs beaten to a froth, half a small nutmeg grated, and a little lemon o A DELICATE CAKE. — 130 — A DELICATE CAKE — continued. extract. Beat all well together, and put it into a tin lined with buttered paper, and bake for an hour. Five or six ounces of pounded almonds may be added to this cake, according to taste. A f|i| 4 ^ W ■fi h * M,i® in # M ■ # U 3k t — #J 8£ pL ^ t.l.S # ~ fa ATI — .... Si Hi fe» «i ^ m &0m x. z on m z 4un aess®_ *,s if f as fi04 » lit 3k 1§ 10, in vrt ffl # lit tr - # flS it i<. M 1? #,'ii ^ fl# 4- ® )i. >H i t'-, 33J ff W, vft 8% §§ S ^ fi — ■ ifr SBHIS 4)o€ *r ^ — 3g X tr m ff «o4 is m si tsixis “ “ ROCK CAKES. RUB half a pound of butter into a pound of dried flour, and half a pound of fine moist sugar. Mix the whole with two beaten eggs, and half a glass of brandy ; drop them on a baking sheet, and bake them half an hour. m & m m ft 3k $ * m m m m MAP m ife in tr #, ffi i? » 4- 5 fl ¥>J 2* =£ A - vffl ff A, M, ®, 41 **, li ® II M * #, ^ „ ffi nj jgc #j if o ii m a © m #, in jg m «s ® #; — 131 ICED ROLLS.