Victoria Sandwiches

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• i lb. butter
• 1^ cups flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 teaspoonfuls Elliott's Queensland baking powder
• Jam
• Icing sugar
• Essence of vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, then sift the flour and baking powder and add by degrees, then add the essence.

2. 2

   Have ready greased, two or three round sandwich tins (or bake in a square and cut in half afterwards), divide the mixture in equal portions and bake in a steady oven fifteen or twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Spread with jam before the cakes are quite cold and place one on top of the other, sprinkle well with icing sugar and cut into shapes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

iCTOEIA SANDWICHES i 6 eggs i lb. butter ! 1^ cups flour 1 cup of sugar ! 2 teaspoonfuls Elliott's Queens- Essence of vanilla land baking powder Icing sugar i Jam. I Mode. — Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten, then sift the flour and baking powder and add by degrees, then add the essence. Have ready greased, two or three round sandwich tins (or bake in a square and cut in half afterwards), divide the mixture in equal portions and bake in a steady oven fifteen or twenty Cakes. minutes. Spread with jam before the cakes are quite cold and place one on top of the other, sprinkle well with icing sugar and cut into shapes. 683— OEANGE BISCUITS. i lb. flour ^ lb. sugar Teaspoonful Elliott's Queens- land baking powder

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