PEACH CAKES

Ingredients

• 6 oz. flour
• pinch salt
• 3 oz. castor sugar
• 3 oz. butter
• 3 eggs
• 2 teaspoonfuls Plasmon
• 1/2 teaspoonful baking powder
• a little carmine
• sugar

Method

1. 1

   Put butter and sugar in a bowl, beat 10 minutes; add yolks of eggs, and beat 10 minutes.

2. 2

   Beat whites to stiff froth; add flour mixed with Plasmon; next add a little of egg and flour alternately, stirring gently all the time.

3. 3

   Lastly, add baking powder; pour mixture into buttered moulds (peach-shaped for preference); bake in moderate oven 15 minutes.

4. 4

   Colour with carmine and sift sugar over.

5. 5

   Garnish with vine leaves.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plasmon cookery book (1904) by International Plasmon Limited, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

; 1 teaspoonful baking powder ; rind of 1 lemon ; 1 oz. candied lemon peel ; | gill of m ilk. Method. — Put butter and sugar into a basin and beat to a cream, then add the eggs and beat well again ; stir in all the dry ingredients except the baking powder ; add the milk and flavourings, and mix well ; stir in the baking powder ; turn into well-greased tins, and bake in a moderate oven from 20 minutes to 1 hour, according to size. Try the cake with a skewer, if it comes out clean the cake is done. Turn out and place on a sieve to cool. 107. SWISS ROLL. — Ingredients : 3 eSSs >' 4 oz- sugar; 3 oz. flour; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon stock ; | teaspoonful baking powder ; 2 tablespoonfuls jam. Method. — Whisk the sugar and eggs together over hot water (not boiling) until thick and creamy ; add Plasmon stock and flour, mix lightly together, and lastly add baking powder. Butter a baking tin and line it with a buttered paper, on to which pour the mixture. Place in a hot oven and bake from 7 to 10 minutes. Heat the jam. When the roll is ready turn out on a piece of white paper which has been dusted with castor sugar. Spread on jam and roll up quickly. Icing for Swiss Roll. — Ingredients: 4 oz. icing sugar; 2 oz. fresh butter ; 2 sticks Plasmon chocolate. Method. — Rub sugar through a sieve, mix the butter and sugar together, grate the chocolate and add to mixture which is then ready for use. 108. PEACH CAKES. — Ingredients : 6 oz. flour ; pinch salt; 3 oz. castor sugar ; 3 oz. butter ; 3 eggs ; 2 teaspoonfuls Plasmon; \ teaspoonful baking powder ; a little carmine

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