Little Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 pound of flour
• half a pound of butter
• half a pound of castor sugar
• 1 teaspoonful of baking powder
• a little grated lemon-peel

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients thoroughly and bake in buttered patty pans until they are a rich gold colour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a little grated lemon-peel or essence of vanilla. If the butter is hard, melt it slightly ; beat it to a cream ; now add the sugar, beat it in well ; next beat in one weU-beaten egg ; then add the flour by slow degrees ; lastly, the other well-beaten egg. Mix all very thoroughly. Have some small buttered moulds or SUNBEIES. 227 patty pans, pour in the mixture, and bake in a brisk oven until they are a rich gold colour. 550. — Plain Plum Cake. 8 ounces of flour, 5 ounces of butter (or 2^ ounces of butter and 2i ounces of dripping), 5 ounces of currants, 5 ounces of sultana raisins, 1 ounce of candied peel, 1 ounce of Jordan almonds flnely cut up, teaspoonful of baking powder, 4^ ounces of brown sugar, and 3 eggs. Mix aU these ingredients very thoroughly together, and bake 2 hours in a slow oven. 550a. — Pistachio Cake. 1 pound of pistachio nuts j blanch them ; pound them in a mortar Avith 1 egg, and a very small quantity of grated lemon-peel. Whisk up the whites of 10 eggs to a stifl" froth, beat it up Avith the 10 yolks and half a pound of castor sugar, mix thoroughly to the pounded nuts, put it in a buttered mould, and bake in a moderately heated oven. Will take about an hour. Turn out, and eat hot or cold. 551. — Little Tea Cakes. 1 pound of flour, half a pound of butter, half a pound of castor sugar, 1 teaspoonful of baking poAvder, a littU grated lemon-peel. Mix these ingredients 228 WHOLESOME COOKERY. thoroughly together, then bake in buttered patty pans until they are a rich gold colour. 551a. — Chocolate Glazed Cakes. Simmer 1 pound of sugar in half a pint of water till it becomes a thick syrup. Dissolve some powdered chocolate ; add it to the above ; cook a few minutes ; spread the mixture over sponge cakes thickly, and put them on one side to set. 551b. — ColFee Glazed Cakes. Instead of chocolate dissolved, stir in a small quantity of strongly made coffee. 552. — Bryntirion Cake. Mix half a pound of flour with 1 teaspoonful of baking powder

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.