Queen Cakes

Ingredients

• 4 oz. of butter
• 4 oz. of corn flour
• 4 oz. of flour
• 6 oz. of sugar
• 3 eggs
• >^ of a teaspoonful of lemon-juice
• >^ of a teaspoonful of lemon extract
• I small teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, add corn flour, flour, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, lemon extract, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Beat well for 10 minutes.

3. 3

   Bake in well-buttered patty pans in a warm oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Allied cookery (1916) by Harrison, Grace Clergue Mrs., page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oz. of sugar and two even tablespoons of butter. Stir in gradually 3 oz. of fine tapioca. Place the saucepan on a slow fire and simmer 15 minutes. Pour the mixture into a basin and add yi cup stoned raisins, the grated rind of i lemon, \yi oz. finely cut candied orange-peel, one whole ^g'g, 3 yolks; mix all together. Beat the 3 whites stiff and add to the mixture. Pour into a mould which has been buttered and well sprinkled with powdered sugar and steam 45 minutes. Serve with any sweet sauce. Allied CooKery 97 With a larger quantity of raisins this resembles an old time ''Whisper Pudding." So called because the pltmis were close together. GINGER ICE-CREAM (Canadian) fIDake a pint of custard. When it is cold add yi pint unsweetened condensed milk, ^ pint un- sweetened condensed cream, 2 tablespoons of chopped preserved Canton ginger, and 4 table- spoons of the syrup from the ginger jar. Freeze. ALMOND CAKE (Canadian) ^The ingredients are: Whites of 10 eggs, i cup of flour, \]/2 cups of sugar, i teaspoonful of cream tartar ; the method of mixing similar to angel cake. Bake in 3 layers. For the filling: Yolks of 4 eggs, i tablespoon of sugar, 2 teaspoons of corn-starch mixed in enough milk to moisten, i pint of cream. Heat the cream in a double boiler, then add other ingredients, stir constantly and do not let it thicken too much ; add a few drops of almond flavouring and yi cup of chopped almonds. For the frosting: White of i ^gg beaten stiff. 98 Allied CooKery 1 cup of sugar with enough water to melt it. Boil 2 minutes. Stir half of it into the egg, let the remainder boil thick. Add all together and beat to the right consistency; flavour with sherry or Madeira. QUEEN CAKES (English) fIDelt 4 oz. of butter, then add 4 oz. of com flour, 4 oz. flour, 6 oz. sugar, 3 eggs, >^ of a teaspoonful of lemon-juice, >^ of a teaspoonful of lemon extract, I small teaspoonful of baking powder

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