Fruit Cake
From Evans' recipe cookery book, 1900
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This recipe was extracted from Evans' recipe cookery book (1900), page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Teaspoonful Salt, Method' Rub butter into flour ; mix into light dough with milk ; make into fancy shapes ; brush over with egg or milk ; bake in quick oven for fifteen minutes. i;6 BROWN SCONES. ingredients. 1 1 Lb. Whole Wheat Meal. i Oz. Butter, i Teaspoonful Castor Pinch of Salt. Sugar. Milk. 2 Full Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder. Method. Mix all dry ingredients and rub in butter; mix into light dough with sweet milk; divide into two round cakes; cut each into four, * bake in moderate oven. 177 CURRANT TEA SCONES. Ingredients. 1 Lb. Flour. 3 Ozs. Butter. 3 Ozs. Currants. 2 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder. i Teaspoonful Cream of Tartar, Method. Mix all dry ingredients well together ; rub in butter ; beat egg and add half ; add milk and mix into stiff dough ; divide into two ; cut each into four ; brush over with rest of egg ; put at once into quick oven ; bake fifteen to twenty minutes. 3 Ozs. Castor Sugar, i J Oz. Candied Lemon Peel. A Little Milk. J Teaspoonful Bi-Carbonate of Soda. i Egg- GRIDDLE SCONES (VERY GOOD). Ingredients. \ Lb. Flour. 2 Ozs. Sugar. | Teaspoonful Bi-Carbonate of Soda. I Teaspoonful Tartaric Acid. 2 Ozs. Butter, i Egg. | Teaspoonful Baking Powder. i Teacupful Milk. Method. Mix che carbonate of soda, tartaric acid, and baking powder with the flour and rub butter lightly in ; beat egg with sugar ; add milk ; mix with dry ingredients to form a soft dough ; divide into three pieces ; roll each piece out into a round scone ; put on a hot griddle ; bake five minutes over clear fire. *79 TEA SCONE, ingredients. i Lb. Flour. 3 Ozs. Castor Sugar, i Oz. Butter. i Teaspoonful Cream of J Teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda. Tartar. Buttermilk. Method. Rub butter into flour ; mix dry ingredients ; mix and add butter¬ milk ; grease cake tin and pour in mixture ; bake in moderate oven for forty-five minutes. SELF-RAISING FLOUR. Ingredients. io Lbs. Fine Flour. 4 Ozs. Cream of Tartar. 2 Ozs. Bi-Carbonate of Soda. 1 Oz. Fine Salt. Method. Mix thoroughly and pass through a fine hair sieve. CHRISTMAS CAKE, Ingredients. 12 Ozs. Flour, i Lb. Currants. 4 Ozs. Candied Lemon Peel. 4 Ozs. Blanched Almonds. £ Lb. Butter. 12 Ozs. Castor Sugar. Method. i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. i Teaspoonful Ground Ginger. 4 Ozs. Citron. 5 Eggs. Beat butter and sugar into cream ; add flour, mixed with baking powder and ginger ; add fruit and stir well ; beat yolks of eggs and add ; beat whites of eggs and stir gently in ; bake for three and a half hours. The almonds should be chopped small. For Almond Paste.— -Ingredients— | lb. sweet almonds ; 2 eggs ; § lb. castor sugar ; i teaspoonful orange flower water. Method — Blanch almonds and chop very fine ; beat yolks of two eggs and white of one ; put almonds, eggs, and sugar in saucepan ; stir over gentle fire till reduced to paste ; add flavouring ; spread over cake and stand till cold. For Icing.— Ingredients — i lb. icing sugar ; \ teaspoonful lemon juice ; 2 eggs (whites only). Method— Pass sugar through fine hair sieve ; add lemon juice ; thoroughly beat whites of eggs and stir in gradually till sugar is moistened ; stir to thick paste ; beat from ten to fifteen minutes ; dip knife in hot water and spread smoothly over cake ; decorate with fancy tubes and bag. 182 FRUIT CAKE. Ingredients. i Lb. Flour. J Lb. Sultanas. i Lb. Castor Sugar. 4 Eggs. 6 Ozs. Butter. A Little Method. Mix flour and baking powder ; rub in butter ; add sugar \ beat eggs with milk; mix thoroughly with dry ingredients as previously mixed ; add fruit ; stir well ; put in cake tin lined with well-buttered paper ; bake in moderate oven for about two hours. 6 Ozs. Currants. 2 Ozs. Mixed Peel. | Teaspoonful Salt, i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Milk. i83 RICH FRUIT CAKE. Ingredients. | Lb. Butter. 14 Ozs. Flour. J Lb. Castor Sugar. § Lb. Sultana Raisins. 6 Eggs. J Lb. Orange Peel. Method. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add eggs singly, and without being beaten ; mix in the flour gradually ; and last add the peel (cut into small pieces) and the raisins, which should be washed and dried. Bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half. 184 POUND CAKE* ingredients. § Lb. Flour. \ Lb. Castor Sugar. 1 Lb. Currants. 5 Eggs. ! Lb. Butter. 1 Lb. Sultanas
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