Bachelor’s Buttons

Ingredients

• 6-oz. butter
• A-lb. castor sugar
• 3 yolks of eggs
• 2 whites of eggs
• 15-oz. flour
• 4 teaspoonful lemon essence
• 1 teaspoouful baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour, add the other ingredients and mix well.

2. 2

   Divide into pieces the size of a walnut, dip each with a fork into the third white of egg, and roll in coarse sugar or finely chopped almonds or desiccated cocoanut.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoouful baking powder. Beat 5 minutes, and bake in small dripping tin. 64 45. Seed Bread (To Butter ). 3^-lbs. flour. J-lb. lard i rubbed in). 1- lb. sugar. id. yeast. 2- oz. carraway seeds. 2-oz candied peel. After kneeding well, let it stand 4 hours. Then put in tins and let it rise a few minutes before bakiug. 46. Queen Anne’s Cake. 3-oz. butter. 6-oz. castor sugar. £-lb, flour. 1 teaspoonful grated ginger. 1- oz. lard. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder 2- oz. candied peel. Beat well with a little milk and bake. 47. 5pice Bread. ij-lbs. flour. 4-oz. sugar. 3 teaspoonsful baking powder. ij-lbs. sultanas, i-pint buttermilk. Bake in bread tins. 5-oz. lard (rubbed in). 2-oz. candied peel. 2 eggs. J-lb. currants. Pinch of salt. 65 48. Bachelor’s Buttons. 6-oz. butter. A-lb. castor sugar. 3 yolks and 2 whites 15-oz. flour. of eggs. 4 teaspoonful lemon 1 teaspoouful baking essence, powder. Rub the butter into the flour, add the other in- gredients and mix well. Divide into pieces the size of a walnut. Dip each with a fork into the third white of egg and roll in coarse sugar or finely chopped almonds or desiccated cocoanut. 49. Cocoanut Fingers. 3-oz. butter. 2-oz. castor sugar. 2 eggs. J-lb. cocoanut. 6-oz. flour. Roll into cork shapes, and roll in cocoanut and bake. 50. Victorine Buns. £-lb. butter. 2 eggs. 3-oz. ground rice. 3-oz. sultanas. J-lb. castor sugar. ^-lb. flour. 2-oz. peel. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Bake in patty pans. 66 5!. Orange Cakes. 2-oz. butter. }-lb. castor sugar. 2 eggs ^-lb. flour. 1 orauge rind (grated). Little milk. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder Bake in a moderate oven in tea cake tins. 52. Ginger Cakes. 2-oz. butter. 2.j-oz. castor sugar. 1 egg. 7-oz. flour. i-oz. treacle. 5-oz. grated ginger. ^-teaspoon ful baking powder. Bake in small cakes. 53. Cherry Cakes. 3-oz. butter. J-lb. castor sugar. J-lb. flour. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoonsful baking 3-oz. chopped candied powder. cherries, l ew drops of vanilla Little milk, essence. Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs, etc. Ml:c well and put in deep tins and bake. When cold, ice with water icing, and place a cherry on the top. 67 54. Small Seed Cakes. 3-oz. butter. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Add a little milk if necessary, tins. 6-oz. sugar. :}-lb. flour, i-oz. carrawaT seeds and bake iu tea cakj 55. Lemon Jumbles. 5*oz. castor sugar. 14-oz. flour. 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. Juice of 2 lemons. 3-oz. butter. 7 pacr 3 teaspoonsful milk. £ teaspoonful carbonate of soda. Rind of 1 lemon. Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg, stir in the milk, juice and rind. Mix the soda and tartar in the flour, and stir it in gradually till the paste is rather stiff. Roll out rather thin. Cut in ovals with cutter, and bake in a quick oven about 5 minutes. 56. Cocoanut Gingerbread. j-lb. flour. 2-oz. sugar, x teaspoonful carbonate soda. £-gill milk. 1 egg. J-lb treacle. 2-oz. butter. J-lb. cocoanut. J-oz. ginger. Dissolve the butter and sugar and syrup and add the other ingredients and lastly the soda dissolved in, milk. Bake 1 hour. 68 57- Lemon Buns. 3-oz. butter. 6-oz. sugar. 2 eggs. £-lb. flour. Grated peel of 2 teaspoousful baking i lemon. powder. Bake in patty pans in a moderate oven. 58. Ashton Sandwiches. Beat 3 eggs with 3-oz. sugar for 10 minutes, add 3-oz. flour and bake in a flat tin lined with buttered paper. They will not take more than 7 minutes to bake. When cold, cut in fingers, divide each through the middle, spread with jam, ice on the top and decorate with preserved cherries or angelica. 59. Christmas or Wedding Cake. i-lb. flour. 1 - lb. butter. i-lb. Demerara sugar, ^-lb. Valencia raisins. i.J-lbs. currants. ^-lb. candied peel. A-lb. citron. 9 English eggs. ^ nutmeg. Wine glass of rum. Beat the butter to cream, add sugar, add flour by degrees, then eggs, and beat with a wooden spoon 20 minutes. Add raisins (weighed after they are stoned and chopped) and rest of fruit, etc. and mix well and put in a tin. Cut the citron in thick pieces (1 inch long) and push into the cake here and there. Bake 5 hours in slow oven. Almond Paste. i^-lbs. ground almonds. 2^-lbs. castor sugar. £ small packet of gelatine. Mix the almonds and sugar and bind with a very little dissolved gelatine. Put on the cake with a knife. Icing. Put 2-lbs. icing sugar in a bowl and moisten with the beaten whites of 2 egg

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