Welsh Cheesecakes

Ingredients

• Line patty pans with short crust,
• put into each a small quantity of jam,
• on the top of the jam a teaspoonful of the mixture.
• 1 egg.
• Grated rind of half a lemon.
• Its weight in sugar,
• butter,
• A pinch of baking powder,
• and flour.

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add flour and egg alternately, beating between each addition, then lemon rind, and lastly the baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake immediately in a fairly quick oven till nicely browned.

3. 3

   Before serving, sift over with castor sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Liverpool School of Cookery recipe book (1900) by E. E. Mann, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Welsh Cheesecakes. Line patty pans with short crust, put into each a small quantity of jam, and on the top of the jam a tea- spoonful of the mixture. Bake immediately in a fairly quick oven till nicely browned. Before serving, sift over with castor sugar. Mixture for Welsh Cheesecakes. — 1 egg. Grated rind of half a lemon. Its weight in sugar, butter, A pinch of baking powder, and flour.

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