Victoria Buns

Ingredients

• 2-oz. butter
• 2-oz. castor sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 lb. flour
• 1/2 oz. currants
• 1-1/2 oz. ground rice
• 1/2 oz. candied peel
• Little milk

Method

1. 1

   Bake in brisk oven in patty pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "ideal" cookery book (1902) by Lilian Clarke, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

^-oz. castor sugar. 1 dessertspoonful cornflour 1 white of egg (stiff). Mis sugar, cocoanut, and cornflour together. Whip the white of egg and add it. Form in small pyramids on buttered paper. Bake a few minutes till the out- side is set. 27. London Buns. 3-oz. butter. $-lb. brown sugar. 2 eggs. i-lb. flour. 2 teaspoousful baking powder 3-oz. candied peel Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon. Mix with a little milk, and bake in patty pans. 59 28. Victoria Buns. 2-oz. butter. 2-oz castor sugar, i egg. £-lb. flour. £-oz. currants. ij-oz. ground rice. %-oz. candied peel. Little milk. Bake in brisk oven in patty pans. 29. Norwegian Cake. 2-oz. butter. J-lb. sugar. 2 eggs. i-lb. flour. J-lb. currants. 2-oz. lemon peel. 2 teaspoonsful baking powder Little milk. Very good made in bread tins to butter. 30. J-lb. butter. 3 eggs, f-lb. flour. £-lb. sultanas. Sultana Cake. £-lb. castor sugar. J-lb. ground rice. 3 teaspoonsful baking powder. Little milk. These cakes must be fairly stiff, or the sultanas will sink to the bottom. Will make two good-sized cakes. 31. Cocoanut Cake. 2 eggs and their weight in flour, sugar and butter. Beat all together, and add a few drops of cochineal. Add 5 or 6 drops of vanilla essence. Then add the flour, and 4 chopped candied greengages, 2-oz. cocoanut, and two teaspoonsful of baking powder. 6o 32. Lancashire Parkin. ij-lb. fine oatmeal. J-lb. butter (rubbed in). 1 teaspoonful ginger. 1 teaspoonful carbonate soda. £-lb. flour, i-lb. sugar, i-lb. treacle. 1 egg

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