Plain Cheese-cakes

Ingredients

• Four units koya or curd
• 1 of ratafias
• 3 of sugar
• 1 of butter
• 4 of yolk of egg
• some nutmeg
• the grated rind of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Pound the curd and ratafias, and mix in the other ingredients; decorate with slices of green citron.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 225. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 of butter. Ratafia.- — As above, omitting the lemon juice, and stirring in 2 units crushed ratafia. All these may be made with cream instead of milk. 7. Tourtes, or open tarts, are made in a variety of ways, and filled with, for instance, a layer of pounded almonds and sugar, then apricot jam, then some pastry cream, and decorated. A variety of dishes may be made this way. Fleurs are round open tarts made of short paste, filled with jam and cream, or any preserve or custard. 8. Cheese-cakes, Mirletons, &c. — These are all made in patty- pans lined with the trimmings of puff paste, and filled with various mixtures, a few of which are given below. Maids of Honour.^ — One unit butter, 1 of stale sponge-cake crumbs, 1 of sugar, 1 of lemon juice, some lemon essence, 4 of eggs. Melt sugar, butter, and lemon juice over the fire. Stir in the 2 units yolk of egg, and thicken till like honey. Mi.x in the cake crumbs and the 2 units white of egg whipped to a froth. Fill into paste-lined patty-pans. Or, beat up 4 units eggs with 15 units milk and the juice of 1 lemon. Pour into boiling water to curd. Gather the curd and squeeze lightly, add 3 units yolk of egg, 1 unit sugar, 5 of thick cream, a little nutmeg, 1 unit brandy, and a few currants. Use as above. Mirletons.— Four units eggs, 3 of sugar, IJ of cake crumbs or ratafias, 1 of butter, a little salt, and some orange-flower water. Whip the whole together for quarter of an hour. Put a layer of jam at the bottoTU of each patty-pan, and a spoonful of the mixture on the top. Almond Cheese-cakes. — Two units pounded almonds, 4 of eggs, 2 of sugar, 1 of lemon juice, 1 of butter, a few drops e.ssence of almonds. Beat all together well. Plain Cheese-cakes.— Four units koya or curd, 1 of ratafias, 3 of sugar, 1 ot butter, 4 of yolk of egg, some nutmeg, and the grated rind of half a lemon

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