Snow Cakes (Large)

Ingredients

• Jib. of butter
• Jib. of powdered white sugar
• two eggs
• 1 teaspoonful of essence of vanilla
• lib. of potato-flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter to a cream, add sugar and beat for five minutes.

2. 2

   Beat eggs till light, add to the mixture with vanilla, and mix well.

3. 3

   Then mix in potato-flour lightly.

4. 4

   Put the Cake into a lined tin and bake for three-quarters-of-an-hour in a moderate oven.

5. 5

   Cut into square pieces when cooled.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Jib. of butter and Jib. of sugar, and work into 6oz. of flour ; mix well together with the whites of eight eggs whisked to a froth. Put into a greased tin and bake. Simple Cakes. — Take Jib. of flour and rub Jib. of butter into it ; then add 3 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar, a little salt, and one egg well whisked. Mix all well together, and roll out to about Jin. in thickness. Cut it into various fancy shapes with biscuit-cutters, and bake on tins in a moderate oven till coloured. Sly Cakes. — Mix loz. of sugar with Jib. of flour ; add to this only sufficient cold water to make it into a smooth, stiff paste ; roll it out three times, spreading 2oz. of butter on iteach time, folding and rolling it in as for pastry. When the third 2oz. of butter are folded in, roll it out very thin and cut it into small rounds or squares about 2Jin. or 3in. in diameter. Have ready Jib. of washed and dried currants, spread half of the little pieces of paste pretty thickly with them, lay the other half on top of them, one on each, pressing them gently so as to form a sandwich. Bake in a quick oven. They should be nicely browned. Small Cakes. - — Into ljlb. of flour rub ljlb. of butter and 1 table-spoonful of lard ; then add ljlb. of fine moist sugar, 4 table-spoonfuls of powdered cinnamon, and make these ingredients into a dough with J pint of milk in which 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda has been dissolved. Boll Cakes — continued. out the dough thin on a floured paste-board, cut into shapes, and dip the face of each Cake in granulated sugar. Bake slowly on greased baking-sheets. Snow Cakes. — (1) Large.— Put Jib. of butter into a basin and beat it to a cream, using the back of a wooden spoon ; add Jib. of powdered white sugar, and beat with the spoon for five minutes longer. Break two eggs, beat them till they are quite light, and add to them J teaspoonful of essence of vanilla. Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter and sugar, and mix them well together, then mix in lightly lib. of potato-flour

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