Raspberry Cheese Cakes

Ingredients

• } lb. butter
• b lb. flour
• 2 eggs
• b lb. sugar
• J tea-spoonful baking-powder
• Raspberr}^ jam
• Some scraps of pastry

Method

1. 1

   Roll pastry out thinly, cut into rounds, line some small patty-pans, put in ea-spoonful raspberry jam.

2. 2

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs (beaten); sieve flour and baking-powder, stir lightly to butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Put a good spoonful of this mixture into each patty-tin.

4. 4

   Bake in a moderate oven from 15 to 20 minutes.

5. 5

   Cool, and sprinkle with castor sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery (1905) by E. Crichton, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Raspberry Cheese Cakes } lb. butter. \ lb. flour. 2 eggs. Some scraps of pastry. \ lb. sugar. J tea-spoonful baking-powder. Raspberr}^ jam. Method. — Roll pastry out thinly, cut into rounds, line some small patty-pans, put in \ tea-spoonful raspberry jam. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs (beaten) ; sieve flour and baking-powder, stir lightly to butter and sugar. Put a good spoonful of this mixture into each patty-tin. Bake in a moderate oven from 15 to 20 minutes. Cool, and sprinkle with castor sugar. 54 HOUSEHOLD COOKERY Apple Cheese Cakes 1 lb. apples. Grated rind and juice of i 2 oz. butter. lemon. 2 eggs. Scraps of pastry. Sugar to taste. Method, — Cook the apples in a little water till soft : rub through a sieve. Add butter, sugar, eggs (well beaten), lemon rind and juice. Line patty-pans with pastry, put in mixture, and bake in a quick oven from 15 to 20 minutes. Sprinkle with fine sugar. Curd Cheese Cakes 2 oz. butter. 2 oz. sugar. I oz. currants. i egg. I stale sponge cake. i pint milk. Juice of I large lemon. Some scraps of pastry. A little grated nutmeg. Warm the milk, add lemon-juice (strained), stir well. Strain the whey from the curds, put curds in a bowl, add currants, sponge-cake crumbs, sugar, butter, nutmeg, and a few drops of lemon essence. Line some patty-pans with the pastry, put in a large spoonful of the mixture. Bake in a quick oven till nicely browned. Apricot Tartlets \ lb. butter. \ tea-spoonful baking-powder. J lb. sugar. Apricots (tinned). \ lb. flour

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