One ounce of hazel nuts, after they are cracked, and a quarter of an ounce of sweet almonds minced very finely, one and a half ounces of sifted sugar, the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth, mix the ingredients well together, and add sufficient flour to make it stiff✪ Hazelnut Cakes, roll out the paste, cut into rounds with the top of the flour dredger, 104 T'he ChiWs Cookery Book and bake in a slow oven for twenty minutes. Use as little flour as possible, or the biscuits will be too hard. Picnic Cake One egg, its weight in flour, butter, ground rice, and sugar, one teaspoonful ot baking powder, and a very little milk✪ Picnic Cake. Mix all well together, and spread on trays made of buttered paper turned up at the sides, bake for ten minutes in a quick oven. Spread with jam, and put one layer of cake on the other, sprinkle with castor sugar, and cut in small squares. Cousin Lily's Cake Three ounces of sifted sugar, two ounces of flour, a tablespoonful of water, the yolks of two eggs and the white of one✪ Cousin Lily's Cake. Prepare the tin by making it warm and buttering the inside well, then sift sugar over it and 105 T^he Child'^s Cookery Book shake out all that does not stick. Whisk the eg-gs well, and then boil the sugar and water together, and add it boiling to the eggs, beating all the time ; beat this mixture for half an hour, then gradually stir in the flour, which should be warmed, then pour quickly into the tin, which should not be quite filled. Bake for half an hour. MurieFs Christmas Cake Beat a c|uarter of a pound of butter to a cream, add a quarter of a pound each of sugar and flour, half an ounce of candied peel chopped fine, and two very well-beaten eggs ; bake in a buttered tin in a quick oven. Every-day Cake Two ounces of beef dripping, six ounces of flour, two ounces of sugar, one teaspoon- ful of caraway seeds, a quarter of a pint of io6 T'he Child'^s Cookery Book milk, half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda✪ Every-day Cake. Rub the dripping into the flour, add the sugar and caraway seeds and mix it altogether with the milk in which the soda has been dissolved. Bake for half an hour. HaIf"HoIiday Cake One ounce of ground rice, one ounce of flour, two ounces of sifted sugar, one ounce and a half of butter, one egg, and an egg- spoonful of caraway seeds. Rub the butter and flour together and mix in the sugar, rice, and caraway seeds, then add the white of the egg beaten to a stiff froth, beat it up well and add the yolk. Stir all together. Line a tin with buttered paper, and bake. Susan^s Tea Cake Rub one ounce of butter into half a pound of flour, add one egg✪ Susan's Tea Cake and one tea- 107 T'he Child'^s Cookery Book spoonful of sugar, lastly one teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix altogether with a little cold milk, make into small cakes, and bake in a quick oven. Cocoanut Cake A quarter of a pound of sifted sugar, two ounces of butter, one eggcupful of milk, a quarter of a pound of flour, the grated peel ot half a lemon, one egg, two ounces of grated cocoanut, and enough carbonate of soda to cover a threepenny bit✪ Cocoanut Cake. Mix the sugar with the butter beaten to a cream, the grated lemon, milk, and the egg beaten separately. Stir all well together, and add the soda, then add the flour by degrees, and lastly the cocoanut, which can be grated from a fresh cocoanut or bought in packets ready for cooking. Line a tin with buttered paper, and bake for twenty minutes.

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One ounce of hazel nuts, after they are cracked, and a quarter of an ounce of sweet almonds minced very finely, one and a half ounces of sifted sugar, the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth, mix the ingredients well together, and add sufficient flour to make it stiff, roll out the paste, cut into rounds with the top of the flour dredger, The Child's Cookery Book and bake in a slow oven for twenty minutes. Use as little flour as possible, or the biscuits will be too hard. Picnic Cake One egg, its weight in flour, butter, ground rice, and sugar, one teaspoonful ot baking powder, and a very little milk. Mix all well together, and spread on trays made of buttered paper turned up at the sides, bake for ten minutes in a quick oven. Spread with jam, and put one layer of cake on the other, sprinkle with castor sugar, and cut in small squares. Cousin Lily's Cake Three ounces of sifted sugar, two ounces of flour, a tablespoonful of water, the yolks of two eggs and the white of one. Prepare the tin by making it warm and buttering the inside well, then sift sugar over it and The Child's Cookery Book shake out all that does not stick. Whisk the eggs well, and then boil the sugar and water together, and add it boiling to the eggs, beating all the time ; beat this mixture for half an hour, then gradually stir in the flour, which should be warmed, then pour quickly into the tin, which should not be quite filled. Bake for half an hour. Muriel's Christmas Cake Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, add a quarter of a pound each of sugar and flour, half an ounce of candied peel chopped fine, and two very well-beaten eggs ; bake in a buttered tin in a quick oven. Every-day Cake Two ounces of beef dripping, six ounces of flour, two ounces of sugar, one teaspoonful of caraway seeds, a quarter of a pint of io6 The Child's Cookery Book milk, half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Rub the dripping into the flour, add the sugar and caraway seeds and mix it altogether with the milk in which the soda has been dissolved. Bake for half an hour. Half-Holiday Cake One ounce of ground rice, one ounce of flour, two ounces of sifted sugar, one ounce and a half of butter, one egg, and an eggspoonful of caraway seeds. Rub the butter and flour together and mix in the sugar, rice, and caraway seeds, then add the white of the egg beaten to a stiff froth, beat it up well and add the yolk. Stir all together. Line a tin with buttered paper, and bake. Susan's Tea Cake Rub one ounce of butter into half a pound of flour, add one egg and one tea- The Child's Cookery Book spoonful of sugar, lastly one teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix altogether with a little cold milk, make into small cakes, and bake in a quick oven. Cocoanut Cake A quarter of a pound of sifted sugar, two ounces of butter, one eggcupful of milk, a quarter of a pound of flour, the grated peel of half a lemon, one egg, two ounces of grated cocoanut, and enough carbonate of soda to cover a threepenny bit. Mix the sugar with the butter beaten to a cream, the grated lemon, milk, and the egg beaten separately. Stir all well together, and add the soda, then add the flour by degrees, and lastly the cocoanut, which can be grated from a fresh cocoanut or bought in packets ready for cooking. Line a tin with buttered paper, and bake for twenty minutes.

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