Cake Delicious

Ingredients

• £ lb. flour
• 3 eggs
• i lb. sugar
• i teacupful milk
• | lb. butter
• | i teaspoonful cream of tartar
• 2 teaspoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs well beaten, then milk and flour and powders; bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. sugar. Blanch the almonds, and pound them with two ozs. sugar. Add the grated rind and juice of the lemon, and mix with the eggs and sugar. Beat the whites to a stiff froth, stir them in, and mix by degrees the flour and rice flour. Bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Mrs. T. J. Robinson, Rio de Janeiro. CHOCOLATE CAKE. 5 lb. butter. I 3 ozs. flour. £ lb. chocolate. 4 ozs. almonds. 2 lb. sifted sugar. | 7 eggs. 1 teaspoonful of sal volatile. Beat butter to a cream. Add the yolks of eggs and the chocolate, which you have previously grated and warmed in the oven. Beat well together, add flour, sugar, and the almonds well pounded, the whites of the eggs beaten to a froth, and the sal volatile. Bake in a slow oven. Ice with chocolate to keep it moist. It should not be eaten for three days. Lady Blythswood. CHOCOLATE CAKE. £ lb. butter. 6 ozs. sugar. 10 ozs. flour. 2 ozs. chocolate, grated. 3 eggs £ lb. Sultana raisins. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. 1 teaspoonful essence of vanilla. Beat butter and sugar to a cream. Add eggs well beaten, chocolate (which you have melted over the fire in a little milk), flour, baking powder, fruit, and lastly the essence. Put into a buttered and floured tin and bake about one hour. Miss Barnett, Crosshill. 155 CORNFLOUR CAKE. 8 ozs. cornflour. I 6 ozs. sugar. 3 ozs. butter. | _ 3 eggs. 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, beat eggs, and mix all together. Cook in a moderate oven for about hours. Miss Kershaw. SCOTCH CURRANT BUN. 2 lbs. currants. 1 lb. Sultanas. 5 lb. citron, lemon, and orange peel. 1 lb. sugar. 1 lb. flour. 1 packet mixed spice. 1 teacupful milk. 1 nutmeg (grated). 1 teaspoonful ground cinnamon. 1 teaspoonful ground ginger. 1 teaspoonful Jamaica pepper. 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda. ?raLnd“.y'"ne-} For Crust. lbs. flour. I 1$ teaspoonfuls sugar. 6 ozs. butter. A pinch of salt. | teaspoonful baking powder. I 1 egg. r A little cold water. Crumble the butter finely amongst the flour. Add the sugar, salt, powder. Beat up the egg and add half a teacupful of water to it. Set a little aside in a cup. Make a stiff paste with the remainder. Roll it out into a thin sheet, cut a piece for bottom and one for top of cake, and pieces for the sides. Butter the inside of cakepan, line well with paste, brush with egg. Moisten the fruit, &c., with milk, pack into cakepan. Cover, brush with egg, prick with fork. Bake 2\ to 3 hours in moderate oven. Mrs. Burnet, Torphins. CAKE DELICIOUS. £ lb. flour. I 3 eggs. ^ lb. sugar. i teacupful milk. | lb. butter. | i teaspoonful cream of tartar. 2 teaspoonful soda

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