Albany Cakes

Ingredients

• six eggs
• a quart of milk
• a tea-spoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• a tea-spoonful of salt
• sufficient fine flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and stir into milk.

2. 2

   Add bicarbonate of soda and salt dissolved in hot water.

3. 3

   Stir in enough flour to make a thick batter.

4. 4

   Butter small tins and half fill them with the mixture.

5. 5

   Bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 119. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a tea-spoonful of baldng-powder. Half fill some buttered cups, and bake in a quick oven. Time to bake, about twenty minutes. Sufficient for one dozen cups. Probable cost. Is. 4d. Adelaide Sandwiches.— Cut up cold cliickcn and ham in small squares, in the pro- portion of two-thirds of chicken to one-third of ham. Next place two large table-spoonfuls of sauce and one of curry paste in a stewpan, and when they boil add the claicken and ham, mixing all well together. Prepare thin dices of stale bread, cut in small ciiclcs, by frying them in clarified butter. Spread the prepared chicken and ham slightly between two slices of the bread. Upon the top of each sandwich place a baU, about the size of a walnut, and composed of grated Parmesan cheese and butter in equal parts, kneaded into a paste. Place the sand-ndches on a baking-cloth, bake for five minutes in a brisk oven, dish up on a napkin, and serve as a second- course savoury dish. Admiral's Sauce. — Make a pint of good melted butter, and put into it one tea-spoonful of chopped capers, three or four eschalots, chopped, four pounded anchovies, and a little thin lemon-rind. Let all simmer gently; add pepper, salt, and the juice of half a lemon, and serve in a tiu-een. Time to simmer, half an hour. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for a pint of sauce. Agnew Pudding. — Pare and core eight russets, and boil them to a pulp with the rind of half a lemon. Beat up the yolks of thi-ee eggs, and add to them tliree ounces of melted butter ; sweeten to taste, and beat all together. Line a pudding-dish with puff paste, pour in the mixture, and bake until it becomes a light bro\sTi colour. Time to bake, thirty minutes. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for ;four persons. Albany Cakes. — Lightly beat six eggs, and stir them into a quart of milk ; add a tea- spoonful each of bicarbonate of soda and salt, dissolved in a little hot water. Stir in sufficient fine flour

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