ALMOND CAKES

Ingredients

• 2 oz. flour
• 2 oz. castor sugar
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 egg
• pinch salt
• 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla
• 1 teaspoonful Plasmon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the egg and add it alternately with the flour (the salt and Plasmon should be previously mixed with the flour); then add the vanilla.

2. 2

   Beat the mixture well.

3. 3

   Grease a shallow baking tin and line with paper, spread the mixture over evenly, and bake in a quick oven for 15 minutes.

4. 4

   Just before it is done brush over with the white of 1 egg beaten up with 1 oz. sugar; then strew 2 oz. chopped almonds over and return to the oven, and bake till a fawn colour.

5. 5

   Turn out and cut into triangle shapes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plasmon cookery book (1904) by International Plasmon Limited, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALMOND CAKES.— Ingredients : 2 oz. flour; 202. castor sugar ; 2 oz. butter; 1 egg ; pinch salt; g teaspoonful vanilla ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon. Method. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; beat the egg and add it alternately with the flour (the salt and Plasmon should be previously mixed with the flour) ; then add the vanilla. Beat the mixture well. Grease a shallow baking tin and line with paper, spread the mixture over evenly, and bake in a quick oven for 15 minutes. Just before it is done brush over with the white of 1 egg beaten up with 1 oz. sugar ; then strew 2 oz. chopped almonds over and return to the oven, and bake till a fawn colour. Turn out and cut into triangle shapes. 110. PLASMON TEA BUNS. — Ingredients : 2 oz. butter; 2 oz. sugar ; 5 oz. flour ; 1 large teaspoonful Plasmon; 1 egg, divided and beaten separately ; 2 oz. dried cherries ; 1 oz. angelica, cut up thinly ; a few drops vanilla flavouring ; g tea- spoonful baking powder. Method. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add yolk of egg, and beat well ; then add flavouring ; mix dry ingredients on plate and add them to the ingredients in the basin, and a little milk if required — it must not be mixed too stiffly. Lastly, add the white of egg, beaten to stiff froth ; put the mixture into small greased tins, and bake in hot oven for about 15 minutes; or it may be baked in one large tin, when it will take about 1 hour to cook. 111. PLASMON CHEESE CAKES.— Ingredients : l pint milk ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon ; 1 oz. butter ; 1 oz. sugar ; 1 oz. flour ; 1 oz. almonds, blanched and chopped ; a few drops essence of almonds ; 1 egg. 52 Method. — Put the milk into a saucepan ; when warm, sprinkle in i teaspoonful of Plasmon ; bring it to the boil, and let it boil for 2 minutes, stirring well all the time ; then pour into a clean basin. Put the butter and flour into the saucepan and stir over the fire for a few minutes ; then add the sugar, flavouring, the egg (well-beaten), and the milk with the Plasmon dissolved in it ; stir all together, and boil for about 3 minutes ; then stir in the chopped almonds. Line some patty-pans with flaky pastry, put some of the cheese cake mixture in each, and bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. 112. CHERRY CAKES. — Ingredients: For Pastry — 3 os. flour ; 1 oz. Plasmon; 2 oz. butter ; salt ; yolk of (jw and water. For Mixture — 2 oz. butter ; 2 oz. sugar; 1 oz. dried cherries ; 1 oz. peel ; 1 oz. cake crumbs ; % . oz. cornflour ; 1 egg. Method.- — To make the mixture, cream the butter and sugar together, and add the rest of the dry ingredients and the eggs gradually until it becomes like a thick cream. Make the pastry by rubbing the butter into the flour and adding the Plasmon, mixing with the egg and water until it becomes a thick paste. Roll out and cut into rounds ; put pastry into greased tins, and add a teaspoonful of the mixture. Bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes. 113. COCOANUT BISCUITS.— Ingredients : | lb. cocoa- nut ; 4 lb castor sugar ; 1 oz. Plasmon; whites of 3 eggs. Method. — Put castor sugar and eggs into a basin, and whisk to a stiff froth; then lightly stir in cocoanut and Plasmon. Place in little heaps on a buttered paper on a baking-sheet, and bake in a moderate oven about 20 minutes. Dry well, and keep in an air-tight tin. 114. SHORTBREAD. — Ingredients : 6 oz. flour; 2 oz. Plasmon; | lb. butter ; 2 oz. castor sugar

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