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Rice Flour Cake

From The English-Chinese cookery book, 1890
Presented as published in 1890. 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 The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

six ounces of butter ; and grated ginger. Mix the above ingredients well together, make them into small nuts, and bake them on a baking tin for half an haur. in m, # m 4\ m #» m m a m $ Hr e m » m i|>Jt 31 ffj 0 — 'ff p * % Zt WL im if o n # i . * ti- BB ra S ^ «h. a * CRULLERS. Apiece of butter the size of an egg, one cup of sugar, one nutmeg, three eggs. Make stiff Avith flour, and cut in fanciful shapes. Fry in boiling lard. UK iffl 10. — . it m 13 Z #. II s * M m m J£ $ £ vtfi. ■ .. n 9$ . If A. #R # m S ffi * ift &E JFa * — 128 GINGER SNAPS. WORK a quarter of a pound of butter into a pound of fine flour, then mix it with half a pound of treacle, quarter of a pound of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of ground ginger, and one of caraway seeds. Work it all well together, and form it into cakes not larger than a dollar, place them on a baking tin in a moderate oven, and bake for twenty minutes, when they will be dry and crisp. Jtli? 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Add it to the flour and butter, and make them into a paste, work it well with the hands for one minute, and roll it out. Have ready some mince-pie tins, butter them, line them with the paste, put a little ball of paper in each (to keep the lid of paste raised), then put a lid of the paste over them. Bake them in a quick oven for ten or twelve minutes. When taken out of the tins, turn them bottom upwards. When they are cold, take a penknife and cut a hole the size of a ten cent price and take the paper out. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth ; cover the rolls with it, and dust them well with sifted sugar. Put them in a slack oven to brown. When to be set on the table, fill them with good custard, and put a little sweetmeat on the top. 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