Plasmon Special Ornamental Cake
From Plasmon cookery book, 1904
Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Plasmon cookery book (1904) by International Plasmon Limited, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
PLASMON SPECIAL ORNAMENTAL CAKE.— Ingredients: i lb. butter; i lb. castor sugar; 6 oz. flour; 2 oz. Plasmon ; 3 eggs ; 5 lb. almond paste. Method.- — Beat i lb. butter into a cream, add i lb. castor sugar and beat again for 10 minutes ; take 6 oz. flour and 1 oz. Plasmon. Well mix together, then slowly work in with butter and sugar ; beat up 3 eggs (only 3 required when using Plasmon), add to the other ingredients, and thoroughly mix all together ; flavour with a few drops of vanilla essence ; have tin ready, well buttered, and paper well buttered to line it ; place the mixture in, and bake in moderate oven about 1 hour. When cold, ice over with pink icing made to a paste of the ordinary consistency with Plasmon stock. Take | lb. almond paste and mix in 1 teaspoonful of Plasmon, add a few drops of sap green to colour ; have ready white Royal icing and ornament the top in any fancy design. 105. CHOCOLATE CAKE. — Ingredients : | lb. butter ; 5 lb. castor sugar ; \ lb. fine flour ; | lb. Plasmon chocolate ; 1 oz. Plasmon powder ; a little icing sugar and milk. Method. — Beat | lb. butter
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