Drop Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 small teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• 1 pint flour
• 1 cup washed and picked currants
• 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon extract lemon
• 1/2 cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar to a white, light cream; add the eggs, beat for 10 minutes; add the flour and powder sifted together, the milk and extracts.

2. 2

   Mix into a rather firm batter, and drop with a spoon on a greased baking-tin; bake in a quick oven for 10 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon extract lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together 10 minutes; add the butter, melted; sift together flour, rice flour, and the powder, which add to the eggs, etc., with the cream and the extract ; mix into a thin batter, and bake in patty-pans, well greased, in a hot oven, 10 minutes. Cinnamon Cakes. — Whites 4 eggs, A cup sugar, 1 cup flour, A teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 teaspoon ex¬ tract cinnamon. Mix as for cakes without butter, and bake in patty-pans in a quick oven. Ice with water icing flavored with cinnamon extract. Drop Cakes. — 1 cup butter, A cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 small teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 pint flour, 1 cup washed and picked currants

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