Fruit Cake
From Evans' recipe cookery book, 1900
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This recipe was extracted from Evans' recipe cookery book (1900), page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
5 Eggs. ! Lb. Butter. 1 Lb. Sultanas. 4 Ozs. Mixed Peel. A Pinch Salt. X Teaspoonful Baking Powder. ftleihed. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; add flour (sifted), with baking powder and salt, by degrees ; add eggs, one by one, beating all thoroughly with the hand ; stir in fruit ; place in baldng tin lined with well-buttered paper, and bake in moderate oven about two hours. ALMOND SIMNEL. Ingredients. 6 Ozs. Castor Sugar, io Ozs. Flour. 2 Ozs. Mixed Peel. 6 Ozs. Butter. i Lb. Currants. 4 Eggs. i Teaspoonful Powder. A Little Nutmeg. Method. Beat butter and sugar to cream ; beat eggs well and add ; mix baking powder with flour and add gradually ; add fruit and flavouring ; mix well and half fill a cake tin greased and lined with greased paper ; put in half the almond paste (see below) ; fill tin with cake mixture ; bake for four hours in slow oven. Before cake is fully baked, take remainder of almond paste ; brush top of cake round the edge with white of egg, and place thick ring of paste thereon. For Almond Paste. — Ingredients— -6 ozs. ground almonds ; 4J ozs. castor sugar ; 2 eggs (whites only). Method — Mix ingredients well together ; stir in saucepan over slow fire till it forms a ©aste. GENOA CAKE. Ingredients. | Lb. Butter. \ Lb. Sultanas. 2 Ozs. Mixed Peel. 5 Eggs. £ Lb. Castor Sugar. Method. 1 Teaspoonful Baking Powder, io Ozs. Flour. 2 Ozs. Sweet Almonds. Rind of Lemon (Grated). Beat butter to cream ; add sugar, and beat well \ beat eggs, and add alternately with flour (to which the baking powder has been added) ; add peel (finely chopped) ; add sultanas and grated rind of lemon ; turn into a tin lined with greased paper ; bake for an hour and a half. When cake has been in oven for one hour, slice almonds and lay on top. WALNUT CAKE. ingredients. 4 Eggs. JLb. Sugar, £ Lb. Flour. 4 Ozs. Butter. i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Beat sugar and eggs for twenty minutes ; add butter (melted), and stir in flour as lightly as possible, having previously added baking powder, a pinch of salt and flavouring according to taste. Half the mixture, and pour one part into a well-buttered tin ; colour the other half, and do likewise. When cake is cooked, cut each piece in half, and ice each piece. Put one on top of the other, to make cake of four layers. Ice the top, and ornament with walnuts. Icing. — £ lb. butter ; | lb. icing sugar ; £ lb, walnuts. ORANGE CAKE. ingredients, i Lb. Flour. | Lb. Butter. i Lb. Castor Sugar. 2 Oranges. A Little Icing Sugar. 4 Eggs. 1 Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; beat eggs with tablespoonful of milk ; sift flour through hair sieve * add flour slowly to butter and sugar ; mix lightly but well ; when rather stiff add milk and eggs gradually ; add grated rinds of oranges (which should be well washed and dried) ; add baking powder ; pour mixture into buttered tin, and bake in good oven for thirty minutes. When baked, turn upside down on sieve and spread icing (see below) evenly. For Icing.— Squeeze and strain juice of oranges ; pass icing sugar through wire sieve ; add to juice sufficient sugar to give consistency of double cream ; spread with knife dipped in boiling water. Ingredients. 189 GINGER CAKE. i Lb. Flour. 4 Ozs. Brown Sugar. 1 Teaspoonful Cinnamon. 2 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder. 4 Ozs. Butter. 4 Ozs. Syrup. 2 Teaspoonfuls Ground Ginger. 2 Eggs. A Little Milk. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; mix syrup and spices, and warm ; mix flour and baking powder ; thoroughly mix all these ; beat eggs and add, with sufficient milk to bring to right consistency ; pour into cake tin lined with buttered paper ; bake in slow oven for about two hours. PRESERVED ingredients. 1 Lb. Flour. 4 Ozs. Butter. 2 Ozs. Preserved Ginger. 2 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder. A Little Milk IQO GINGER CAKE. 3 Ozs. Syrup. 2 Ozs. Sugar, i Teaspoonful Ground Ginger. 1 Egg. (if needed). Method. ( Melt butter,, syrup and sugar together ; cut preserved ginger into small pieces ; mix flour, baking powder and ground ginger ; beat egg ; mix all together,, and add a little milk to bring to right consistency ; put in cake tin lined with buttered paper ; bake in moderate oven for about o m hour. PLUM CAKE. Ingredients. 1 1 Lb. Flour. | Lb. Demerara Sugar, i Lb. Sultanas. 4 Eggs- A Little Milk. A Pinch Salt. Method. Cream the butter with the hand ; add sugar and eggs, one by one, and beat well ; mix baking powder, flour and a pinch of salt ; add fruit and flour by degrees to butter and egg mixture ; add enough milk to bring to. right consistency ; place in cake tin lined with buttered paper ; bake in moderate oven for two hours. i Lb. Butter. 1 Lb. Currants. 3 Ozs. Mixed Peel A Few Glace Cherries. 2 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder, ig2 SULTANA CAKE. Ingredients. J Lb. Fresh Butter. | Lb. Flour. | Lb. Sultanas. J Lb. Castor Sugar. i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. | Lb. Bice Flour. 3 Eggs. A Little Milk. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; mix baking powder with flour, and add gradually ; add fruit ; mix well ; beat eggs thoroughly, and add with milk ; beat mixture five minutes ; put in cake tin lined with irreased paper ; bake in moderate oven for two hours. 193 CHERRY CAKE. Ingredients. io Ozs. Flour. 4 Ozs. Castor Sugar. 3 Eggs. i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; beat eggs ; add eggs alter¬ nately with flour and milk ; beat mixture thoroughly ; add fruit, lemon rind and baking powder ; pour into tin lined with greased paper ; bake for an hour and a half in moderate oven. 1 Pint Milk. 2 Ozs. Glace Cherries. 4 Ozs. Butter. A Little Lemon Rind (Grated). 194 BRANDY SNAPS. Ingredients. £ Lb. Flour. t Lb. Brown Sugar. | Lb. Syrup. 6 Ozs. Butter. \ Oz. Ground Ginger. A Bust of Cayenne. Method. Warm syrup ; beat butter and sugar to a cream and mix with warmed syrup ; mix dry ingredients and stir well ; pour mixture in teaspoonfuls on a greased baking tin, allowing ample room for spreading ; bake in gentle oven ; remove when warm and curl round rolling pin. 195 CHOCOLATE CAKE. Ingredients. £ Lb. Butter. 6 Ozs. Flour. 2 Ozs. Ground Rice. \ Lb. Grated Chocolate. 4 Ozs. Castor Sugar. 4 Eggs. I Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Vanilla. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream. Beat yolks of eggs and stir chocolate therein ; add to butter ; mix rice and flour and add ; add baking powder ; beat white of eggs into stiff froth, and add flavouring ; add to mixture ; put in tin lined with greased paper ; bake for one hour. 196 TENNIS CAKE. Ingredients. 10 Ozs. Flour
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