Brunswick Cakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. butter
• 2-oz. sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 lb. flour
• 1/2 lb. currants
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 2-oz. mixed peel
• Grated rind of 1 lemon
• Add a little milk, but the mixture should be stiff.

Method

1. 1

   Drop onto a baking sheet in pieces the size of a walnut.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brunswick Cakes. £-lb. butter. 2-oz. sugar. I egg. J-lb. flour. J-lb. currants. i teaspoonful baking 2-oz. mixed peel. powder. Grated rind of i lemon. Add a little milk, but the mixture should be stiff. Drop on to a baking sheet in pieces the size of a walnut. 19. Jordan i-oz. butter. 1 egg- 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Mix and bake at once in a moderate oven, two when cold and spread with jam. Cakes. 1 teacupful sugar. I teacupful flour. Pinch of salt. Cut in 20. Lunch Cake. i-lb. flour. 1 tcaspoonful baking powder. 3 eggs. i-oz. carraway seeds. Bittle milk. Bake i£ hours. J-lb. iripping (rubbed in). 1 teacupful sugar. 1 cup of milk. J-lb. currants. 57 2i. Plain Plum Cake. £-lb. sugar, f-lb. flour. 2-oz. candied peel. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Cream the butter, add the sugar and eggs, then rest of ingredients. Bake in moderate oven. J-lb. butter. 3 eggs, i-lb. currants, ^-pint milk. 22. Rice Buns. $-lb. butter. 2 eggs. J-lb. ground rice, i-oz. lemon peel. J-lb. castor sugar. ^-lb. flour. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder. Mix with milk. Bake in patty pans. 23. Raspberry Buns. 6-oz. flour. 6-oz. ground rice. 4-oz. butter* 8-oz. granulated sugar. (rubbed in). Little milk. Yolk of 1 egg. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Make into a stiff paste, and roll in the hands to size of walnuts. Make a hole in the middle, put in a little jam and close up. Bake in slow oven. 5§ 24. Walnut Cake. 4-oz. butter. 4-oz. castor sugar. 3 eggs. $-lb. flour 6-oz. chopped walnuts. Essence of vanilla, i teaspoonful baking powder. Bake in tea cake tins in fairly hot oven 25. Icing for Walnut Cake. 3-oz. chocolate. J-lb. icing sugar. J of J-pint water. Put the chocolate in a pan with water Allow it to boil, then add sugar, but do not let it boil. Pour over cake. Decorate with half walnuts. 26. Cocoanut Pyramids. 3-oz. cocoanut. i^-oz. castor sugar. 1 dessertspoonful cornflour 1 white of egg (stiff). Mis sugar, cocoanut, and cornflour together. Whip the white of egg and add it. Form in small pyramids on buttered paper. Bake a few minutes till the out- side is set. 27. London Buns. 3-oz. butter. $-lb. brown sugar. 2 eggs. i-lb. flour. 2 teaspoousful baking powder 3-oz. candied peel Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon

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