Fancy Bread and Cakes
Arrowroot Cake
Ingredients. One pound of Butter.
Eight Eggs (Rind of one Lemon)
Beat the butter to a cream; beat the yolks and whites of the eggs separately a long time; add the sugar rubbed through a sieve and the…
Nine Eggs
One gill of warm Milk or Cream. Mix the salt and sugar with the warm milk or cream, put the flour on a slab, make a hole in the centre and…
Carraway Seed Cake
Half a pound of Butter. * If the sponge and dough when mixed are too thin, a little more flour must be worked in. Half a pound of Castor…
Five Eggs (Little Milk if required)
Proceed as for "Luncheon Cake" (page 274).
Cocoanut Buns
Three-quarters of a pound of Prepared Flour.* Quarter of a pound of Cocoanut. Quarter of a pound of White Sugar.
One Egg (Gill of Milk)
Cream the butter and sugar well together; add the milk and egg by degrees, also the flour and the cocoanut, mix well, shape into buns, and…
Chocolate Cake
Half a pound of grated Chocolate. Quarter of a pound of Flour. * To make Prepared Flour: four pounds of Vienna Flour, two ounces of Cream…
Four Eggs (Vanilla flavouring)
Beat the butter and sugar well together, add the grated chocolate, previously dissolved in a tablespoonful of milk; add the eggs one by…
Galettes
Half an ounce of Castor Sugar. Half a pint of Milk (warmed).
Seven Eggs (Sieve the household flour into)
Sieve the household flour into a basin and make it into a soft dough with the milk, in which the yeast and sugar have been mixed as usual…
Genoa Cake
Ingredients. Ten ounces of Flour.
Five Eggs (Grated rind of one Lemon)
Cream the butter well. Add the sugar, and cream again. Add all the other ingredients except the almonds, pistachio nuts, eggs and…
German Pound Cake
Ingredients. Ten ounces of Flour.
Five Eggs (Beat the butter and sugar)
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the flour, sifted by degrees, and the eggs, one at a time, beating all well together with your…
Lemon Cheese Cakes
The Yolks of three Eggs; and The Whites of three (whipped). The grated Rind of one Lemon.
Luncheon Cake
One pound of Vienna Flour (sifted). Half a pound of Castor Sugar.
Five Eggs (Rub the butter and flour)
Rub the butter and flour together in a basin, then add the sultanas and all the other ingredients. Break the five eggs into another basin…
Madeira Cake
Ingredients. Five ounces of Butter.
Four Eggs (Little Citron and grated)
A little Citron, and grated Lemon-peel. Cream the butter and sugar together, add the grated lemon-peel, stir in the eggs one at a time…
Four Eggs (Quarter of a pound of Castor)
Quarter of a pound of Castor Sugar.
Ingredients for the Icing
Half a pound of fresh Butter. One tablespoonful of Essence of Coffee.
Orange Cake
Rind and juice of one Orange, grated.
Three Eggs (Beat the eggs and sugar)
Beat the eggs and sugar together to a smooth cream; add the flour and baking-powder sifted, and the orange juice and rind. Mix all well…
Queen Cakes
Quarter pound of Currants or dried Cherries. Two ounces of Candied Peel. The Rind of two Lemons (grated).
Three Eggs (Quarter of a teaspoonful)
Quarter of a teaspoonful of Bakingpowder. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the eggs and flour by degrees, then the fruit, peel, and…
Rich Plum Cake
One pound and a half of Flour.
Ten Eggs
One ounce of Allspice. like Cream the butter and sugar well together, then sift in the flour and salt gradually, add the eggs one at a…
Savarin
Half a pound of Vienna Flour. Half an ounce of German Yeast.
Four Eggs (Five ounces of Butter)
Warm one gill of milk, mix the yeast and sugar together, and stir the warm milk to them. Sift the flour into a basin, make a well in the…
Baba au Rhum
Ingredients the same as for Savarin, with the addition of one and a half ounces of currants and rum syrup. Proceed for this sweet exactly…
Sponge Cake
Half a pound of Castor Sugar.
Four Eggs (Sift and warm the flour Beat)
Sift and warm the flour. Beat the eggs and sugar together for twenty minutes, then stir in the flour very lightly. Bake in a cake-tin lined…
Four Whites of Eggs (Juice of two Lemons)
Rub the sugar through a hair-sieve into a basin, make a well in the sugar and pour in the whites of eggs and lemon-juice, work these all…
Chocolate Icing
Ingredients, Half a gill of Water. Half a pound of Icing Sugar.
Sultana Cake
Half a pound of Castor Sugar.
Five Eggs (Half a pound of Sultanas)
Salt. Cream the butter and sugar well together, sift in the flour, the salt, and the baking-powder; add the eggs, one at a time, and the…
Vienna Bread
Quarter of an ounce of Castor Sugar. Quarter of an ounce of Salt.
One Egg (Ounce of Butter)
Half a pint of warm Milk. Mix the sugar and yeast together; beat up the egg, add it to the milk and pour it into the yeast.
Walnut Cake
Quarter of a pound of Vienna Flour. Half a pound of Castor Sugar.
Eight Eggs (Half a pound of Walnuts)
Half a pound of Walnuts or Almonds. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, then add the flour, sifted, and mix well; add the walnuts or…
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