Bluette

Ingredients

• one ounce of butter
• an ounce of castor sugar
• a well-beaten egg
• a dessert-spoonful of corn-flour
• the same quantity of ordinary flour
• a teaspoonful of milk
• ten drops of vanilla
• a teaspoonful of baking powder
• a pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter till creamy, add sugar, then the egg.

2. 2

   Sift in corn-flour and ordinary flour.

3. 3

   If thick, add milk with vanilla.

4. 4

   Grease a tin, stir in baking powder and salt, put into the tin and bake in a hot oven till brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The child's cookery book (1900) by Louisa S. Tate, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bluette Beat up one ounce of butter till it is quite creamy, then add an ounce of castor sugar, and beat it in well. Then add a well- beaten egg. By degrees sift in a dessert- spoonful of corn-flour, and the same quantity of ordinary flour. If the mixture is very thick, add a teaspoonful of milk, into which you may drop ten drops of vanilla. Grease a tin, and at the last moment stir into the mixture a teaspoonful of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Put it into the tin and bake in a hot oven till brown. It will take about ten minutes. White Wonders Whisk the whites of three eggs, in which there is not a speck of yellow, to a stiff froth, and stir into it three ounces of castor sugar and two ounces of desiccated cocoa- 1 1 1 T^he Child'^s Cookery Book nut. Grease some paper and put it in a tin. Put the mixture in rough heaps on the paper, sift a little more sugar over them, and bake in a very slow oven, till they feel quite hard when you touch them. The oven ought not to be hot enough to turn them brown. Little Queen^s Favourites Blanch and pound one ounce of almonds with a little sugar, mix them with three ounces of sifted or castor sugar ; beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth and add it to the almonds and sugar ; then add one ounce of ground rice ; beat the mixture all well together, and when very light drop it from a spoon in small round cakes on to the tin, and bake in a slow oven. I 12 T'he Child'' s Cookery Book Birthday Biscuits Mix six ounces of sifted sugar with half a pound of flour, add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs, a tablespoonful of orange- flower water, and, if necessary, a little water ; mix into a stiff paste, roll it out thin, and cut into shapes ; sprinkle sugar over, and bake in a quick oven. Baby^s Biscuits Mix four ounces of flour and four ounces of sifted sugar together, rub into this one and a half ounces of butter, and add half a teaspoonful of baking powder and a well- beaten eg

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