Evans' recipe cookery book

Beat butter well ; beat eggs ; mix all together ; add flavouring ; form into fancy shapes with hands ; roll in crushed sugar ; put on greased tin and bake in moderate oven from ten to fifteen minutes. SCOTCH CURRANT BUN. Ingredients. | Lb. Flour. Water. £ Lb. Butter. £ Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Mixture. 1 Lb. Flour. £ Lb. Sugar. 2 Lbs. Valencia Raisins. 2 Lbs. Currants. £ Lb. Almonds. | Lb. Orange Peel. £ Oz. Ground Ginger. 2 Ozs. Ground Cinnamon. £ Oz. Jamaica Pepper, i Teaspoonful Baking Soda, i Teaspoonful Cream of Tartar, i Breakfast -cupful Milk (small). Method. Rub flour and butter together ; add baking powder, then enough water to make into a firm paste, which roll out thinly ; grease a cake tin and line it neatly with the paste, reserving a piece for the top of bun. Have the raisins stoned, currants cleaned, almonds blanched, and the orange peel cut finely ; put these along with all the other ingredients into a basin, and add just enough milk to barely moisten the whole ; mix this thoroughly and put the mixture into the lined tin ; brush edges of the paste with water and place on top covering ; mark all over with a fork ; brush over with egg or milk ; bake in a moderate oven for about three hours. O SPONGE SANDWICH CAKE AND BUTTER ICING. Ingredients. 2 Eggs. i Teaspoonful Baking ^ Lb. Castor Sugar. Powder. i Lb. Flour. 3 Tablespoonfuls Milk. Essence Lemon. Method. Whisk eggs and sugar together until the mixture becomes lighi and thick, then stir in the milk. Sift the flour ; mix the baking powder with it ; stir them in gradually, then add a few drops of essence of lemon. Pour the mixture into two sandwich cake tins which have been greased and floured, and bake in a moderate oven. Butter Icing.— i lb. fresh butter ; \ lb. icing sugar ; | teaspoonful essence vanilla. Rub the sugar through a sieve, and beat it and the butter together to a cream ; flavour with vanilla, and spread a layer of the icing between the cakes. Ornament the top with the icing (which may be coloured) put through a tube. VICTORIA SANDWICH. 4 Ozs. Flour. i Teaspoonful Baking 4 Ozs. Castor Sugar. Powder. 4 Ozs. Butter. 2 Eggs. Raspberry Jam and Lemon Cheese. Beat butter to a cream ; beat eggs well ; add other ingredients and mix thoroughly ; pour mixture in well-greased sandwich tin ; bake for fifteen minutes in moderate oven ; stand on sieve till cold. Divide cake horizontally into three equal pieces ; spread thin layer raspberry jam on lower part ; replace centre division ; spread lemon cheese thereon ; replace upper division. CREAM Ingredients. \ Lb. Flour. 2 Ozs. Butter. Double Cream. Vanilla. SANDWICH. 2 Ozs. Lard, i Egg. Raspberry Jam. A Little Castor Sugar. Rub butter and lard well into flour with a pinch of salt ; mix into stiff paste with water ; roll out very thin and cut into pieces three inches long and an inch and a half wide ; prick with a fork ; put on greased baking tin ; bake in quick oven till a light brown ; brush with yolk of a egg. Spread thin layer of jam on one piece ; cover with another ; again spread jam ; put cream, whipped with sugar and flavoured with vanilla ; add white of egg beaten with a little sugar to a stiff froth. YORKSHIRE PARKIN. Ingredients. i Lb. Scotch Oatmeal. i Lb. Syrup. 4 Ozs. Butter. 2 Ozs. Sugar.