Orange Rock Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Flour
• 1 teacupful Sugar
• 2 teaspoonfuls Baking Powder
• 3 oz. Butter
• 1 Egg
• 1 Orange

Method

1. 1

   Put flour, sugar, and powder in basin, mix well.

2. 2

   Rub in butter; grate in rind of orange.

3. 3

   Add juice of whole orange and egg, well beaten, to make very stiff dough.

4. 4

   Take off in rough pieces and put on oven shelf.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 149. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Orange Rock Cakes. 1 lb. PloAir, i teacupful Sugar, 2 teaspoonfuls Baking Powder, 3 oz. Butter, 1 Egg, 1 Orange. Put flour, sugar, and powder in basin, mix well. Hub in butter ; grate in ^ rind of orange. Add juice of whole orange, and egg, well beaten, to make very stift' dough. Take off in rough pieces, about the size of a walnut, with two forks, and put on oven shelf, allowing a little sjjace between each. 10 or 15 minutes in quick oven. Queen Cakes. 8 oz. Flour, 2 oz. Butter, 2 oz. Sugar, 2 oz. Sultanas, 1 oz. Peel, rind of Lemon (grated), 1 Egg, and i teaspoonful Baking Powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add flour and egg gradually, beating well between times. Then add raisins, peel, and lemon rind. Beat again, and lastly add baking powder, and mix well. Fill small greased tins three parts full, and bake in oven very quick at first, then cooler. Cook till pale brown, and firm to touch. OR, 3 Eggs, Aveiglit of same in Flour, Sugar, and Butter, Essence of Lemon. Put the butter into a basin, and with the hand cream it well, add the eggs, and beat j then the flour, and continue to beat one way for about 16 minutes. Add a few drops ' essence of lemon. Put in small greased tins, and bake in quick oven for about | hour. Raspberry Buns. Mix 6 oz. ground rice and same of flour. Rub in J lb. lard, same of sugar, and teaspoonful baking powder. Mix into stiff paste, with yolk of egg and a little milk. Divide into balls, hollow each and in- sert a little raspberry jam. Close up, and dip in white of egg. Flatten a little, and bake in shai'p oven. They will crack and show jam through. Rice Buns. 2 oz. Flour, 2 oz. Casfor Sugar, i teaspoouful Baking Powder, 1 lb Rice Flour, 2 oz. Butter, 2 Egg.s, Vanilla Essence, or Rind of 1 Lemon. Cream the sugar and butter, add ^ the flour and 1 egg, then the remainder of the flour, egg, essence, and baking powder. Fill greased 160 TRIED FAVOURITES COOKERY BOOK. patty pans two-thirds full with the mixture. Place in good oven, and bake for 15 minutes. Sufficient for 12 buns. Rice Cakes. 1 cupful cold boiled Eice, 1 pint Flour, teaspoonful Salt, 2 beaten Eggs, Milk to make a rather thick batter. Beat well, and bake on girdle. Or add a tablespoonful melted butter or lard, make the batter a little thinner with milk, and bake in a hot oven in patty pans. Rock Cakes. 1 lb. Flour

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