Rock Cakes

Ingredients

• ^ lb. flour
• ^ lb. sugar
• 2 ozs. candied orange or lemon peel
• ^ lb. currants
• 2 tablespoonfuls of milk
• ^ lb. butter
• 2 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put all the dry ingredients into a basin, beat the butter to a cream and beat the eggs with the milk.

2. 2

   Now add the butter to the ingredients in the basin, then mix to a very stiff dough with the eggs and milk.

3. 3

   Bake on a greased baking tin in little rocky pieces in a quick oven for twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. flour 1 cupful of sugar The whites of 6 eggs \ lb. butter Vanilla essence. Mode. — Eub tLo butter into the flour, add the sugar and a pinch of salt, beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, stir in with the flour and sugar, add suflicient milk to make it moist enough to drop from the spoon ; butter some patty pans and put a spoonful of the mixture into each pan. Bake in a hot oven for nearly twenty minutes. 699— COCOANUT CAKE. 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of butter Yolks of 4 eggs 1^ cups of cold water Whites of 3 eggs 3 tablespoonfuls of Elliott's Grated cococanut Queensland baking 3 cups of flour powder. Mode. — Beat the sugar and butter together for twenty minutes, add the yolks and whites of the eggs beaten well (separately), then the flour, baking powder and water, mix all well together and bake in two sandwich tins ; when cold, ice the tops, then put the other cake on top, ice the whole of it and cover it with cocoanut. 700- CINNAMON BISCUITS. J lb. sugar J lb. butter 3 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon Elour. Mode. — Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the cinnamon and enough flour to make it into a thick paste, roll out very thin and cut into rounds ; bake in a quick oven on a tin with a Little flour sprinkled on it. Cakes. 701— BEANDY SNAPS. ^ lb. ffour 2 ozs. butter f lb. moist sugar J lb, treacle. Mode. — Mix all together, roll out on a floured slab to the thickness of a shilling, and with a plain cutter, cut them five or six inches in diameter ; put them in slightly greased tins and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes, 702-~EOCK CAKES. f lb. flour 1 teaspoonful of Elliott's ^ lb. sugar Queensland baking 2 ozs. candied orange or powder lemon peel ^ lb. currants 2 tablespoonfuls of milk ^ butter 2 eggs

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