Bishop's Bread

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup almonds not blanched
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix eggs and sugar thoroughly, add other ingredients, put in shallow pan and bake in slow oven.

2. 2

   Cut in strips while warm and leave in pan to cool.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bishop's Bread 3 eggs 1 cup almonds not blanched 1 cup sugar 1}/^ cups flour 1 cup raisins 13^ teaspoons baking powder Mix eggs and sugar thoroughly, add other ingredients, put in shallow pan and bake in slow oven. Cut in strips while warm and leave in pan to cool. Margaret Jayne (Tau). Blitz KUchen }/2 cup butter 2 eggs % cup sugar rind 1 lemon, grated }/2 cup milk \}/2 cups flour, measured after sifting 3/2 teaspoon baking powder blanched almonds, cut lengthwise and mixed with sugar and cinnamon Cream butter, add sugar and beat well, stir in eggs, lemon rind, milk, and flour with baking powder, alternately. Spread in two biscuit tins, cover with almonds. Bake twenty minutes. Evelyn N. Walbridge (Omega Sigma). Almond Short Bread 1 pound flour pinch salt }/2 pound butter 5 ounces sugar 1 ounce blanched and chopped almonds Sift the flour and salt onto a baking board. Knead the butter and sugar together, then gradually draw in the flour, kneading well, add the almonds and knead again, keeping the lump firm in both hands. When all is worked up into a stiff paste cut it into three pieces and make each piece round, and about half an inch thick, pinch the edges, dust over with finely chopped almonds, and bake in a moderate oven until they are a nice brown color. The time depends on the thickness of the cakes — from one-fourth to one-half hour. Jean Mearns (Alpha Ganuna). 171 172 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK Scotch Short Bread )/2 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon salt Cream butter and sugar, add flour and salt together. Bake in shallow tin. Cut while hot. Margaret Benton Eichhorn (Lambda Nu). Coffee Cake 3^ cup sugar 2 cups flour, sifted 1 well beaten egg }/2 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk ^ teaspoon nutmeg y^ cup melted butter 34 teaspoon salt 134 teaspoons baking powder Bake in two pie tins twenty to thirty minutes and spread over top; one-fourth cup sugar, one-fourth cup chopped nuts, one tea- spoon cinnamon, bits of butter. Julia B. Gould (Lambda Nu). Coffee Cake 1 cup very strong coffee 3 eggs 1 cup butter 13^ pints flour 2 cups sugar 3^ cup chopped citron \}/2 teaspoons baking powder

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