Little Fig Cakes

Ingredients

• five eggs
• a pinch of salt
• a cup of sugar
• a cup of chopped nuts
• a half cup of raisins
• the juice of one lemon
• a pinch of nutmeg
• one cup of bread-crumbs
• a rounded teaspoon of baking-powder
• one-half pound figs

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs, add salt, sugar, chopped nuts, raisins, lemon juice, nutmeg, bread crumbs mixed with baking powder, and chopped figs.

2. 2

   Bake in one thin sheet and cut into small squares when cold.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LITTLE FIG CAKES Beat together five eggs. Add to this a pinch of salt, a cup each of sugar and chopped nuts, and a half cupof raisins, the juice of one lemon and a pinch of nutmeg, one cup of bread-crumbs in which has been well mixed a rounded teaspoon of baking-powder, and one-half pound figs chopped fine. Bake in one rather thin sheet and when the cake is cold cut in small squares. This may be iced with a plain boiled icing (see Introductory Recipes) into which has been stirred one cup of chopped figs and nuts. 264 FRUIT RECIPES FIG LAYER CAKE Use any of the plain foundation cake batters (see Intro- ductory Recipes) and bake in layers. For filling use the real fig jelly, or the filling given next below or “‘Fig Snow.” FIG FILLING OR JELLY FOR CAKE Chop or shred one pound of figs and boil until tender in one coffee-cupful of water, in double boiler. Add one and one-half cups of sugar and one teaspoon of vanilla. Boil down until smooth and thick. Spread while warm. FIG SNOW FOR FILLING Mix fig pulp (fresh or steamed, or stewed) with whipped cream or meringue as for banana filling for Banana Layer Cake. FIG PUDDING OR PIE (Very Simple) Cut fine one-half pound fresh or dried figs and simmer half an hour in three-fourths pint of water, a dessert- spoonful of sugar being added when nearly done. Re- move and cool, when add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs. Place in a pudding or pie dish and bake in moderate oven until the yolks are set sufficiently, then place on top a meringue made of the whites of the eggs and two table- spoonfuls of sugar. Let this brown and remove to cool. FIG SUET PUDDING (An English Recipe) Chop fine six ounces of suet in three-fourths pound of flour, adding a well-beaten egg, three-fourths cup of sugar,

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