Rock Cakes

Ingredients

• currants
• flour
• one teaspoonful of ground ginger
• a quarter of a pound of crushed loaf sugar
• one ounce of candied peel
• one egg
• about one tablespoonful of milk
• dripping

Method

1. 1

   Mix currants, flour, ground ginger, and crushed sugar.

2. 2

   Add chopped candied peel.

3. 3

   Beat egg with milk and mix into a stiff paste.

4. 4

   Grease a tin, divide paste into portions, and place on the tin.

5. 5

   Bake at 240°F for about 15 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The official handbook for the National Training School for Cookery (1891) by National Training School for Cookery (London), page 152. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoonful of ground ginger ox grated nutmeg, and a quarter of a poitnd of crushed loaf sugar. 6. We take one ounce of candied peel, cut it in pieces, and add it to the other ingredients. 7. We mix all these ingredients together with a wooden spoon. 8. We break one egg into a cup, and beat it up with about one tablespoonftd of milk. 9. We pour this into the basin, and mix all well together into a very stiff paste. Lesson on Making Rock Cakes. 407 10. We take a tin, and grease it with dripping. 11. We divide the paste into small portions with two forks, and lay them in rough heaps on the tin. 12. We put them into the oven (the thermometer at the oven door should rise to 2400) to bake for about fifteen minutes. 13. After that time we take them out of the oven, an4 the cakes are then ready for use. 408 National Training School for Cookery. BUNS. Average cost of " Buns " (this quantity will make about twenty-seven). INGREDIENTS. d. i oz. of German yeast i I J lb. of flour 3 J 3 gills of milk i| i oz. of butter j £ lb. of moist sugar i | lb. of sultana raisins or currants

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