Crumpets

Ingredients

• Eggs 4.
• White sugar 2 cups.
• Butter or lard i cup.
• Soda I tea-spoonful.
• Nutmeg to taste.
• Flour to roll out like cookies.

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients, roll thin, cut into small cakes, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CRUMPETS. Eggs 4. White sugar 2 cups. Butter or lard i cup. Soda I tea-spoonful, dissolved in one-third cup cold water. Nutmeg to taste. Flour to roll out like cookies, rolling thin and cutting into small cakes. Sprinkle them well with powdered sugar, and bake in a quick oven. They are splendid. 206 DOMESTIC GUIDE. CURRANT CAKE. Butter one-half cup. Su~Ar 2 cups. Miik I cup. English currants I cup. Soc^a I tea-spKx>nfuL Cre^.m of tartar 2 tea-spoonfuls. F-:ur, sufficient to make a pouring batter. SXOW-BALL CAKE. S-:gr3.r I cup. S:-r crei:.. j. lable-spoonfula E^g:? 2. S~-..z a lirt'.e. Fiour to r :'■ ~ut. Cut into sma.i round cakes and tr^' in ho: ^ard, and while hot roll in p>owdered sugar. CAXADIAX CAKE. Flour 5^ pound. Pulv. sugar one-half pound. Fresh butter one-half fK>und. English currants ^4 pound. Orange-flower water i table-sjXKjnfuL The grated peel of half a lemon. Sift the flour and sugar together and rub in the butter and the beaten eggs, and the currants and orange water. Beat all until hght and creamy. Put into tins lined v^-ith buttered paper. Put in only thin, as it will raise welL Bake in quick oven. baker's division. 207 CORN STARCH CAKE. Whites of 5 eggs. Butter I cup. Sugar 2 cups. Sweet milk i cup. Corn starch I cup. Flour 2 cups. Cream of tartar i tea-spoonful. Soda one-half tea-spoonful. Follow general directions. RAISIN CAKE. Raisins i pound. Flour I pound. Sugar I pound. Butter I pound. Eggs 6. Sweet milk i cup. Nutmeg I. Tea-spoonful of baking powder. Beat the butter to cream, beat the yolks of the eggs with the sugar, and then the flour. Now stir in the creamed butter, and, having whipped the whites to a froth, stir them in, and the milk, spices and soda, or baking powder. Now beat all till light and creamy, and then add the raisins, they having been stoned, chopped and covered with flour to cause them to mix evenly. The tin must be lined with buttered paper and baked in a quick oven. 208 DOMESTIC GUIDE. APPLE AND PEACH CAKE. Dried apples 3 cups. Molasses 2 cups. Sugar I cup. Raisins i cup. Thick sour cream I cup. Eggs 2. Soda I tea-spoonful.

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