Bohémian Cake

Ingredients

• four ounces of butter
• two ounces of grated chocolate
• four ounces of sugar
• one lemon
• six ounces of flour
• half a teaspoonful of baking powder
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, cream butter and sugar until white, add lemon rind and juice, chocolate, yolks of eggs, and half the flour; whip egg whites, stir in lightly with remaining flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven for one hour and a quarter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOHEMIAN CAKE Ingredients Fonr onnces of butter. Two ounces ol grated chocolate. Four ounces of sugar. One lemon. Six ounces of flour. Half a teaspoonlnl of baking Three eggs. powder. Sift the flour, cream the butter and sugar together until quite white, add the grated rind and juice of the lemon and the grated chocolate; then add the yolks of the eggs and half the flour; whip the whites to a stiff froth, stir them in lightly with the remainder of the flour, and add the baking powder. Put the mixture into a cake tin lined with buttered paper, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour and a quarter. BREAD Ingredients Two and a half gallons of flour. Two ounces of salt. Two ounces of yeast. One gill of warm milk and water. Five pints of lukewarm water. One teaspoonful of castor sugar. Put the flour into a bread-pan; put the yeast and sugar into a small basin and mix smoothly with the warm milk J 130 OCKLYE COOKERY BOOK and water; make a hole in the flour and pour in the yeast; stand the pan in a warm place for a quarter of an hour, then sprinkle in the salt, add the warm water, mix it into a stiff dough, and knead it well for half an hour; set it in a warm place again to rise for one hour and a half; then kmead up lightly and make into cottage loaves or any other shape desired, and bake in a hot oven for rather more than one hour. This quantity makes eight good-sized loaves. WHOLE MEAL LOAF Ingredients Half a pound of wholemeal. One ounce of butter. Half a pound of flour. Salt, Nearly half an ounce of yeast. Half a teaspoonful of castor sugar. Rub the butter and flour into the meal, and a pinch of salt; cream the yeast in a basin with the sugar, add about half a gill of tepid water, make a well in the flour and pour in the yeast; let jt stand for a quarter of an hour covered over with a cloth, then mix it well with nearly half a pint of tepid water; let it stand for rather more than an hour, make it up in any shape required, and bake it in a moderate oven for one hour. CHOCOLATE FINGERS Ingredients Four ounces of flour. Four ounces of grated chocolate. Four ounces of castor sugar. Three eggs. Four ounces of butter

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