Orange Sandwiches

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• three ounces of sugar
• two ounces of butter
• half a tea-spoonful of soda
• the yolks of three eggs
• one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar
• one orange
• three ounces of icing sugar
• one white of egg

Method

1. 1

   Grate orange skin and squeeze juice.

2. 2

   Mix flour, sugar, and butter, then add soda.

3. 3

   Beat yolks with orange juice and rind, mix with flour.

4. 4

   Beat egg whites and fold in.

5. 5

   Bake in buttered tins.

6. 6

   For filling, mix orange juice, rind, icing sugar, and beaten egg white.

7. 7

   Spread on cakes and assemble.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from À la mode cookery (1902) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Orange Sandwiches Grate the yellow skin of an orange, then squeeze out the juice. Put half a pound of flour, three ounces of sugar, and two ounces of butter into a basin and sift into it half a tea-spoonful of soda ; rub the butter and flour well together till it is quite a paste. Put the yolks of three eggs into a basin, beat well, add the grated orange-juice and rind. Mix thoroughly, then add one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar and mix again ; pour all into the basin with the flour, &c., and mix well. Beat the whites of the three eggs till stiff and stir them in ; pour all into two well-buttered sandwich cake-tins and bake till ready. When cool, split, and spread with a mixture made thus : — One orange, three ounces of icing sugar, one white of egg

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