Rainbow Cake

Ingredients

• 2 ozs. flour
• 2 ozs. cornflour
• 3 eggs
• 2 oz^. butter
• 1 tablespoonful dissolved chocolate
• 3 ozs. sugar
• J teaspoonful Elliott's Queensland baking powder
• Some jam
• Cochineal

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour, cornflour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Beat the eggs well, then put the sugar and butter together, and beat to a cream, mix with the eggs and stir in the flour, etc., gradually, add the essence and divide into three parts, with one part mix the chocolate, with another a little cochineal and leave the other plain.

3. 3

   Bake in three sandwich tins in a moderate oven for fifteen minutes.

4. 4

   When cold spread jam between them and place one on top of the other.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Teaspoonful Elliott's Queens- land baking powder J lb. butter 6 eggs 1 orange 2 ozs. candied orange peel. Mode. — Cream the butter and sugar together, add the beaten yolks of the eggs, grate in the rind of the orange, finely chop and add the candied lemon peel ; stir in the flour and baking powder sifted, and lastly stir in quickly the whites of the eggs, which have been beaten to a stifl froth. Have ready buttered, some tiny biscuit tins, half fill these and bake for ten or fifteen minutes in a moderate oven, bake a pretty bright brown. 684— CHEESE CAKES. Ij- lbs. powdered loaf sugar 9 eggs 4 lemons ^ lb, butter Puff pastry. Mode. — Put the sugar, yolks of nine eggs and whites ot six, well beaten, juice of four lemons and grated rind of two, and the butter (which must be fresh), in a saucepan, stir gently over the fire until the consistency of honey, pour into small jars, and when cold it is ready for use. Line some small patty tins with pufi pastry, put a little of the mixture in each, and bake in a hot oven until the pastry is a nice brown and quite cooked. Cakes. 685— DEOP CAKES. 1 lb. flour i lb. butter I- lbs. sugar 1 teaspoonful of Elliott's 3 eggs Queensland baking Essence of vanilla powder Tablespoonful of brandy J lb currants. Mode. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the currants and brandy. Mix in the flour sifted with the baking powder, and the eggs well beaten. Have ready a greased baking sheet, drop on in small pieces and bake for fifteen or twenty minutes. 686— CHOCOLATE CAKES. 4 ozs. butter 5 eggs 6 ozs, sugar i teaspoonful of Elliott's 6 ozs. flour Queensland baking 6 ozs. chocolate powder Essence of vanilla. Mode. — Cream the butter and sugar, beat the eggs, grate the chocolate, sift the flour and baking powder together, then add the eggs to the butter and sugar and stir in the chocolate and flour, and the essence. Have ready some patty pans, half fill witli the mixture, and bake from ten to fifteen minutes. If a little milk be used, one or two eggs may be dispensed with. 687— EAINBOW CAKE. 2 ozs. flour 2 ozs. cornflour 3 eggs 2 oz^. butter 1 tablespoonful dissolved 3 ozs. sugar chocolate Some jam J teaspoonful Elliott's Queens- Cochineal

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