SPONGE FINGERS

Ingredients

• The weight of 2 eggs in sugar
• 1 egg in Plasmon
• 2 in flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs and sugar well together; sprinkle in the Plasmon and flour gradually, stirring all the time.

2. 2

   Put into ceased tins; bake in a very hot oven for 6 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plasmon cookery book (1904) by International Plasmon Limited, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

in flour ; stir very lightly and pour into greased and sugared tins ; bake in a moderate oven till done. The above quantities are sufficient to make two nice cakes. 106. LEMON CAKE. — Ingredients: | lb. flour ; \ lb. butter ; 5 lb. castor sugar ; 2 eggs ; 1 oz. Plasmon ; 1 teaspoonful baking powder ; rind of 1 lemon ; 1 oz. candied lemon peel ; | gill of m ilk. Method. — Put butter and sugar into a basin and beat to a cream, then add the eggs and beat well again ; stir in all the dry ingredients except the baking powder ; add the milk and flavourings, and mix well ; stir in the baking powder ; turn into well-greased tins, and bake in a moderate oven from 20 minutes to 1 hour, according to size. Try the cake with a skewer, if it comes out clean the cake is done. Turn out and place on a sieve to cool. 107. SWISS ROLL. — Ingredients : 3 eSSs >' 4 oz- sugar; 3 oz. flour; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon stock ; | teaspoonful baking powder ; 2 tablespoonfuls jam. Method. — Whisk the sugar and eggs together over hot water (not boiling) until thick and creamy ; add Plasmon stock and flour, mix lightly together, and lastly add baking powder. Butter a baking tin and line it with a buttered paper, on to which pour the mixture. Place in a hot oven and bake from 7 to 10 minutes. Heat the jam. When the roll is ready turn out on a piece of white paper which has been dusted with castor sugar. Spread on jam and roll up quickly. Icing for Swiss Roll. — Ingredients: 4 oz. icing sugar; 2 oz. fresh butter ; 2 sticks Plasmon chocolate. Method. — Rub sugar through a sieve, mix the butter and sugar together, grate the chocolate and add to mixture which is then ready for use. 108. PEACH CAKES. — Ingredients : 6 oz. flour ; pinch salt; 3 oz. castor sugar ; 3 oz. butter ; 3 eggs ; 2 teaspoonfuls Plasmon; \ teaspoonful baking powder ; a little carmine and sugar. 5i Method. — Put butter and sugar in a bowl, beat 10 minutes ; add yolks of eggs, and beat io minutes. Beat whites to stiff froth ; add flour mixed with Plasmon ; next add a little of egg and flour alternately, stirring gently all the time. Lastly, add baking powder ; pour mixture into buttered moulds (peach- shaped for preference) ; bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Colour with carmine and sift sugar over. Garnish with vine leaves. 109. ALMOND CAKES.— Ingredients : 2 oz. flour; 202. castor sugar ; 2 oz. butter; 1 egg ; pinch salt; g teaspoonful vanilla ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon. Method. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; beat the egg and add it alternately with the flour (the salt and Plasmon should be previously mixed with the flour) ; then add the vanilla. Beat the mixture well. Grease a shallow baking tin and line with paper, spread the mixture over evenly, and bake in a quick oven for 15 minutes. Just before it is done brush over with the white of 1 egg beaten up with 1 oz. sugar ; then strew 2 oz. chopped almonds over and return to the oven, and bake till a fawn colour. Turn out and cut into triangle shapes. 110. PLASMON TEA BUNS. — Ingredients : 2 oz. butter; 2 oz. sugar ; 5 oz. flour ; 1 large teaspoonful Plasmon; 1 egg, divided and beaten separately ; 2 oz. dried cherries ; 1 oz. angelica, cut up thinly ; a few drops vanilla flavouring ; g tea- spoonful baking powder. Method. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add yolk of egg, and beat well ; then add flavouring ; mix dry ingredients on plate and add them to the ingredients in the basin, and a little milk if required — it must not be mixed too stiffly. Lastly, add the white of egg, beaten to stiff froth ; put the mixture into small greased tins, and bake in hot oven for about 15 minutes; or it may be baked in one large tin, when it will take about 1 hour to cook. 111. PLASMON CHEESE CAKES.— Ingredients : l pint milk ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon ; 1 oz. butter ; 1 oz. sugar ; 1 oz. flour ; 1 oz. almonds, blanched and chopped ; a few drops essence of almonds ; 1 egg. 52 Method. — Put the milk into a saucepan ; when warm, sprinkle in i teaspoonful of Plasmon ; bring it to the boil, and let it boil for 2 minutes, stirring well all the time ; then pour into a clean basin. Put the butter and flour into the saucepan and stir over the fire for a few minutes ; then add the sugar, flavouring, the egg (well-beaten), and the milk with the Plasmon dissolved in it ; stir all together, and boil for about 3 minutes ; then stir in the chopped almonds. Line some patty-pans with flaky pastry, put some of the cheese cake mixture in each, and bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. 112. CHERRY CAKES. — Ingredients: For Pastry — 3 os. flour ; 1 oz. Plasmon; 2 oz. butter ; salt ; yolk of (jw and water. For Mixture — 2 oz. butter ; 2 oz. sugar; 1 oz. dried cherries ; 1 oz. peel ; 1 oz. cake crumbs ; % . oz. cornflour ; 1 egg. Method.- — To make the mixture, cream the butter and sugar together, and add the rest of the dry ingredients and the eggs gradually until it becomes like a thick cream. Make the pastry by rubbing the butter into the flour and adding the Plasmon, mixing with the egg and water until it becomes a thick paste. Roll out and cut into rounds ; put pastry into greased tins, and add a teaspoonful of the mixture. Bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes. 113. COCOANUT BISCUITS.— Ingredients : | lb. cocoa- nut ; 4 lb castor sugar ; 1 oz. Plasmon; whites of 3 eggs. Method. — Put castor sugar and eggs into a basin, and whisk to a stiff froth; then lightly stir in cocoanut and Plasmon. Place in little heaps on a buttered paper on a baking-sheet, and bake in a moderate oven about 20 minutes. Dry well, and keep in an air-tight tin. 114. SHORTBREAD. — Ingredients : 6 oz. flour; 2 oz. Plasmon; | lb. butter ; 2 oz. castor sugar ; flavouring. Method. — Rub the butter into the flour ; add the Plasmon, sugar, and flavouring ; knead well until it is quite smooth ; roll out, and bake in slow oven about \ hour. 53 115. SPONGE FINGERS.— Ingredients : The weight of 2 eggs in sugar , i egg in Plasmon

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