Victoria Cakes

Ingredients

• Half a pound of flour
• quarter of a pound of butter
• quarter of a pound of pounded loaf sugar
• two eggs
• quarter of an ounce of Miller’s baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to cream; add the sugar, and then the eggs, well beaten; mix well the baking powder with the flour; add it gradually to the butter and sugar, and when properly mixed, dredge a little flour on the paste-board; lay on a piece of the paste about the size of an egg; roll it round very lightly with the hand, and lay it on an iron baking-plate, pressing it gently till about four inches in diameter.

2. 2

   Each cake to be prepared in the same way, leaving a good space between the cakes, as they spread in the baking.

3. 3

   Bake them in a moderately hot oven about ten or twelve minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Victoria Cakes. Half a pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of pounded loaf sugar, two eggs, and quarter of an ounce of Miller’s baking powder

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