Fairy Cakes

Ingredients

• 2 eggs.
• 1 teaspoonful baking-powder.
• Their weight in castor sugar.
• The weight of 1 egg in butter,
• ltemylina cornflour,
• and fine flour.

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, add the well beaten eggs; mix the flour and cornflour and baking-powder together, and sift it in to the mixture gradually.

2. 2

   Flavour it with almond or ratafia essence, and bake in little buttered tins.

3. 3

   Scatter a few chopped almonds on the top of each cake before baking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families (1907) by May Henry, Kate Halford, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FAIRY CAKES. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoonful baking-powder. Their weight in castor sugar. Ratafia or almond flavouring. The weight of 1 egg in butter, ltemylina cornflour, and fine flour.

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