Lemon Buns
From The "ideal" cookery book, 1902
Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Lemon Buns. 3-oz. butter. 6-oz. sugar. 2 eggs. £-lb. flour. Grated peel of 2 teaspoousful baking i lemon. powder. Bake in patty pans in a moderate oven. 58. Ashton Sandwiches. Beat 3 eggs with 3-oz. sugar for 10 minutes, add 3-oz. flour and bake in a flat tin lined with buttered paper. They will not take more than 7 minutes to bake. When cold, cut in fingers, divide each through the middle, spread with jam, ice on the top and decorate with preserved cherries or angelica. 59. Christmas or Wedding Cake. i-lb. flour. 1 - lb. butter. i-lb. Demerara sugar, ^-lb. Valencia raisins. i.J-lbs. currants. ^-lb. candied peel. A-lb. citron. 9 English eggs. ^ nutmeg. Wine glass of rum. Beat the butter to cream, add sugar, add flour by degrees, then eggs, and beat with a wooden spoon 20 minutes. Add raisins (weighed after they are stoned and chopped) and rest of fruit, etc. and mix well and put in a tin. Cut the citron in thick pieces (1 inch long) and push into the cake here and there. Bake 5 hours in slow oven. Almond Paste. i^-lbs. ground almonds. 2^-lbs. castor sugar. £ small packet of gelatine. Mix the almonds and sugar and bind with a very little dissolved gelatine. Put on the cake with a knife. Icing. Put 2-lbs. icing sugar in a bowl and moisten with the beaten whites of 2 eggs and lemon juice, or a little dissolved gelatine. Pour over the cake and make smooth with a knife dipped in water. Ornament with crystalized fruits or crystals put on when the icing is soft. Put in dry place to dry. 60. Split Cakes. Rub 3-oz. butter into i-lb. flour; add 1 tablespoonful castor sugar and 2 teaspoonsful baking powder
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