Queen Cakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. butter
• 3 oz. currants
• 6 oz. flour
• 1/2 lb. sugar
• 1 small tea-spoonful baking powder
• 2 eggs (large)
• Grated rind of 1 lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream, beat up eggs, add slowly.

2. 2

   Clean currants.

3. 3

   Sieve flour and baking-powder, add with currants and lemon-rind to butter and sugar.

4. 4

   Half fill some well-greased queen cake-tins with the mixture and bake in a quick oven from 15 to 20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery (1905) by E. Crichton, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Grated rind of \ lemon. \ tea-spoonful baking-powder. Method. — Cream butter and sugar, add eggs slowly, beat thoroughly, add rind. Sieve flour, rice-flour, and baking-powder, stir lightly to butter and sugar. Pour into a cake-tin lined with paper. Bake in a moderate oven about 40 minutes. Genoa Cake \ lb. butter. \ lb. sugar. \ lb. currants. % lb. sultanas. 10 oz. flour. \ lb. candied peel. 4 eggs. 2 oz. almonds. Method, — Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, beat thoroughly. Mix flour, currants, sultanas, cut up candied peel finely, add to currants, etc. ; stir this lightly to butter and sugar. Pour into a tin lined with paper. Blanch and slice the almonds, scatter over the top of cake. Bake in a moderate oven about i\ hour. 42 HOUSEHOLD COOKERY Berlin Cake 8 oz. sugar. 6 eggs. 2 oz. butter (warmed). 6 oz. flour. Grated rind of i lemon. \ tea-spoonful baking-powder. Method, — Put sugar in a bowl with lemon-rind, break in eggs, whisk till frothy and thick as cream. Sieve flour and baking-powder, stir carefully to eggs and sugar, then add butter, warmed, but not hot. Pour into a tin lined with buttered paper. Bake in a moderate oven about i hour. Cool. Cut into rounds about \ inch thick. Spread with Vienna icing, w^hipped cream, sweetened and flavoured, and jam alternately. Place the slices over each other. Cover with transparent icing. Decorate with Vienna icing, using a forcing-bag and fancy pipe. Queen Cakes \ lb. butter. 3 oz. currants. 6 oz. flour. \ lb. sugar. I small tea-spoonful baking- 2 eggs (large)

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