Delicious Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. butter
• 1/2 lb. castor sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 lb. flour
• 1/2 teaspoonful carbonate soda
• 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar
• Little milk
• 5 drops vanilla essence

Method

1. 1

   Mix well together, and bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. 'flour 2 teacupsful castor sugar. J-lb. butter or lard. id. yeast. Mix well with warm milk to a stiff batter, then beat with the hand for 20 minutes. Place in tins, and allow them to rise before putting in the oven. 16. Summerville Cakes. 3-oz. butter. 3 eggs. J-lb. flour. J teaspoonful baking powder. Bake in small patty pans. 3-oz. sugar. J-lb. grated chocolate. 6 drops essence of vanilla. Tablespoonful of milk. 56 17. Soda Cake. J-lb. butter or dripping. 3 eggs. ^-lb. currants, i teacupful of milk Bake in a moderate oven $-lb. moist sugar i-lb. flour, i teaspoonful carbonate of soda, about I hour. 1 8. 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. Mix with a little milk, and bake in patty pans. 59 28. Victoria Buns. 2-oz. butter. 2-oz castor sugar, i egg. £-lb. flour. £-oz. currants. ij-oz. ground rice. %-oz. candied peel. Little milk. Bake in brisk oven in patty pans. 29. Norwegian Cake. 2-oz. butter. J-lb. sugar. 2 eggs. i-lb. flour. J-lb. currants. 2-oz. lemon peel. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder Little milk. Very good made in bread tins to butter. 30. J-lb. butter. 3 eggs, f-lb. flour. £-lb. sultanas. Sultana Cake. £-lb. castor sugar. J-lb. ground rice. 3 teaspoonsful baking powder. Little milk. These cakes must be fairly stiff, or the sultanas will sink to the bottom. Will make two good-sized cakes. 31. Cocoanut Cake. 2 eggs and their weight in flour, sugar and butter. Beat all together, and add a few drops of cochineal. Add 5 or 6 drops of vanilla essence. Then add the flour, and 4 chopped candied greengages, 2-oz. cocoanut, and two teaspoonsful of baking powder. 6o 32. Lancashire Parkin. ij-lb. fine oatmeal. J-lb. butter (rubbed in). 1 teaspoonful ginger. 1 teaspoonful carbonate soda. £-lb. flour, i-lb. sugar, i-lb. treacle. 1 egg- Dissolve the soda in 2 teacups of milk. Melt the treacle and butter together, beat the egg in, and add the soda last. Mix well. Bake in a slow oven in a dripping tin. 33. Delicious Cake. J-lb. butter. £-lb. castor sugar. 3 eggs- i-lb- flour. £ teaspoonful carbonate 1 teaspoonful cream *f soda. tartar. Little milk. S drops vanilla essence

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