BRISTOL CAKES

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• a quarter of a pound of powdered sugar
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• 4 yolks
• the whites of 2 eggs
• half a pound of dried currants

Method

1. 1

   When thoroughly mixed add half a pound of dried currants, and stir them well into the mixture.

2. 2

   Butter a tin, drop the mixture from a tablespoon to form the cakes, and place in a brisk oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cold dishes for hot weather (1896) by Ysaguirre., page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BRISTOL CAKES Mix half a pound of flour with a quarter of a pound each of powdered sugar and butter, and 4 yolks and the whites of 2 eggs ; when thoroughly mixed add half a pound of dried currants, and stir them well into the mixture. Butter a tin, drop the mixture 106 COLD DISHES FOR HOT WEATHER from a tablespoon to form the cakes, and place in a brisk oven. CINNAMON CAKES Beat 6 eggs with a glass of rose-water; add a pound of powdered sugar, a quarter of an ounce of cinnamon, and enough flour to make a paste. EoU out and cut into small cakes ; bake them on paper. CRACKNEL Mix 8 ounces of flour and 8 ounces of sugar ; melt 4 ounces of butter in 2 table- spoonfuls of wine; make a paste with 4 beaten eggs ; roll out as thin as paper, cut with a glass, moisten with the white of an eggj and dust with powdered sugar. KENT DROP-CAKES Take a pound of flour, half a pound of butter, half a pound of powdered sugar, and currants. Make into a paste with 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water, a glass of brandy, and one of sweet wine. Mix quickly, and drop the mixture through a fun- nel on the tins ; bake for five or six minutes. CAKES AND BISCUITS 107 NUT CAKES Beat 1 pound of walnuts with the whites of 3 eggs, add one and one-half pounds of sugar, mix well, and add the Avhites of 3 eggs ; lay them out about the size of a nut, and cook in a slow oven. QUEEN CAKES Take 1 pound of sugar, 1 pound of flour, 1 pound of butter, 1 pound of currants, the yolks of 10 eggs, and 4 tablespoonfuls of brandy. Work it with the hand for half an hour, put into buttered pans, and sift pow- dered sugar over them. Place in the oven. BOLL GINGEBBBEAD Rub together half a pound of flour, a quarter of a pound of butter, a quarter of a pound of sugar, a teaspoonful of ginger, a teaspoonf ul of allspice, a teaspoonful of pow- dered cinqamon, the grated rind of a lemon, and as much syrup as will make it into a paste. Spread very thin on the tins and bake in a slow oven. When done cut in 108 COLD DISHES FOR HOT WEATHER squares, and while still warm roll it over a stick till cold. Remove and keep in a dry place. SHORT CAKES Eub into a pound of flour 4 ounces of but- ter, 4: ounces of powdered sugar, 1 egg, and a tablespoonful or two of cream, so as to make it into a paste. When mixed add cur- rants to half and caraway seeds to the rest ; roll it thin, cut, and bake on tins. BlSCim DROPS Take three eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of rose- water, a few caraway seeds ; whip Avell to- gether till it becomes a light froth ; add half a pound of flour ; mix well and drop them small ; ice them with a little sugar, and bake. CHOCOLATE BISCUITS Add to 4 well-beaten yolks 2 ounces of chocolate, scraped very fine, and 6 ounces of sugar ; mix well, and add the whites of 6 eggs beaten to a froth ; when well mixed stir in little by little 6 ounces of flour ; put the biscuit on white paper or in small paper CAKES AND BISCUITS 109 moulds; sprinkle a little powdered sugar over them, and bake in a moderate oven. PALAIS-BOYAL BISCUITS Take 1 pound of eggs, 1 pound of sugar, half a pound of flour ; beat the whites and the yolks separately ; stir the yolks into the whites; add the sugar, the grated rind of a lemon, and the flour ; drop in square tins, sift powdered sugar over them, and bake in a quick oven. XTarte an& iPfes ALMOND CAKE Blanch and pound smooth 1 pound of sweet almonds with a little rose-water; stir in 3 weU-beaten eggs, 2 ounces of warm butter, a little grated lemon -peel, a tablespoonful of lemon-juice, and 3 ounces of sugar; mix well. Line some patty-pans with puflf-paste, put in the mixture, and bake in a quick oven. ALMOND CUPS Blanch and pound 1 pound of sweet al- monds, adding a little rose-water ; mix with three-quarters of a pound of powdered sugar

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.