Simnel Cake
From The Bile Beans cookery book, 1931
For almond icing, mix ground almonds with castor sugar, flavour with essence of bitter almonds, and make into paste with yolk of egg.
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This recipe was extracted from The Bile Beans cookery book (1931) by Ltd C.E. Fulford, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SIMNEL CAKE. 2 Ib. each butter and castor-sugar, add 4 eggs; beat well for 10 mins. Then stir in 6 oz. each of stoned chopped raisins and currants, 2 oz. shredded candied peel, ground almonds, teaspoonful mixed spice, and 10 oz. flour, Put half into tin lined with buttered paper, then layer of almond i icing, $ inch in thickness, upon remainder of cake. Bake in moderate oven nearly Z hrs. When cold, cover with almond icing, smoothing it over with knife; decorate to taste. For almond icing, mix together 3 lb. ground almonds with 10 oz. castor sugar. Flavour with essence of bitter almonds ; - make into paste with yolk of egg. YORKSHIRE PARKIN.—1 Ib. fine oatmeal, PAb: ‘treacle, + Ib. butter, 4 oz. ground ginger, 4 teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 2 tablespoonsful demerata sugar, 1 tablespoonful milk. Rub butter into oatmeal, add ginger and sugar. Melt treacle, dissolve sodain milk. Mix all and bake in flat tin, paper lined, in moderate oven about 1 hr. TEA BISCUITS. —1 quart flour, 4 teaspoons baking _ powder, butter size of egg, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, little nutmeg. Put flour in dish, add baking powder, sugar, nutmeg. Rub in butter and wet with milk enough t to make nice Poughice _ Bake 20 mins. in quick oven. _ CHELSEA BUNS. 2a tb: flour, } Ib. butter
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