Robin Cakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. butter
• 6 oz. flour
• 1/4 lb. sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoonful baking-powder
• A little carmine

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream, beat eggs, add slowly, beating all the time.

2. 2

   Sieve flour and baking-powder, stir to the butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Divide in two parts, to one part add a few drops of carmine.

4. 4

   Put 1 teaspoonful of each mixture into some small well-buttered cake-tins and bake in a moderate oven 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.

Robin Cakes \ lb. butter. 6 oz. flour. A little carmine. \ lb. sugar. 2 large eggs. \ tea-spoonful baking-powder. Method, — Beat butter and sugar to a cream, beat eggs, add slowly, beating all the time. Sieve flour and baking-powder, stir to the butter and sugar. Divide in two parts, to one part add a few drops of carmine. Put i tea-spoonful of each mixture into some small well-buttered cake-tins and bake in a moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes. CAKES, ETC 43 Cocoanut Cakes 4 01. butter. 3 oz. flour. 2 large eggs. Grated rind of \ lemon. 4 oz. sugar. 3 ozs. desiccated cocoanut. h tea-spoonful baking-powder

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