Cakes, Recipes for
Directions for making the following appear under their respective headings:
Almond.
Apple.
TENNIS CAKE. put the cakes into a good oven, and bake them from 1 to 2 hours. A few currants might be substituted for the caraway seeds when the flavour of the latter is disliked.
TIME.-1 to 2 hours.
SEASONABLE at any time.
Pavini.
Plain.
Beef.
Plain, for Children.
Breakfast.
Plum, Common.
Breakfast, Ameri- Plum, Nice. can.
Pound.
Bride.
Queen.
Brioches.
Chocolate.
Christmas.
Rice.
Saucer.
Savoy.
Common, for school.
Scotch.
Corn.
Scrap.
Cornflour.
Seed, Common.
Drop.
Seed, Good.
Snow.
Soda.
Sponge.
Sponge, Small.
Tea.
Tea, to Toast.
Tipsy.
Veal.
Yeast.
Economical.
Holiday.
Honey.
Honoré.
Lemon.
Luncheon.
Madeira.
Nice useful.
Oat, Scotch, Cakes, Making and Baking of. -Eggs should always be broken into a cup, the whites and yolks separated, and they should always be strained. Breaking the eggs thus, the bad ones may be easily rejected without spoiling the others, and so cause no waste. As eggs are used instead of yeast, they should be very thoroughly whisked; they are generally sufficiently beaten when thick enough to carry the drop that falls from the whisk.
Loaf Sugar should be well pounded, and principal biscuit manufacturers, Huntley and then sifted through a fine sieve.
Currants should be nicely washed, Note. Very good cakes are now made by the and Peek, Frean and Co., these keeping fresh longer than those obtained from a baker or confectioner.
CALF.
Calf. The manner of cutting up a calf for the English market is to divide the carcase into four quarters, with eleven ribs 6 2 1 3 4 7 5 8 SIDE OF A CALF, SHOWING THE SEVERAL JOINTS. to each foce quarter; which are again subdivided into joints, as exemplified on the cut.
Hind Quarter:- 1. The Toin.
CALF'S FEET, FRICASSEED. better than that pursued in Edinburgh, as giving three roasting joints and one boiling in each quarter; besides the pieces being more equally divided, as regards flesh, and from the handsomer appearance they make on the table.
Calf's Feet, Baked or Stewed. -INGREDIENTS for sufficient for 2 persons. -1 calf's foot, 1 pint of milk, 1 pint of water, 1 blade of mace, the rind of 1/2 lemon, pepper and salt to taste. AVERAGE COST, 1s.
Well clean the foot, and either stew or bake it in the milk-and-water with the other ingredients from 3 to 4 hours. To enhance the flavour, an onion and a small quantity of celery may be added, if approved; 1/2 a teacupful of cream, stirred in just before serving, is also a great improvement to this dish. TIME.-3 to 4 hours.
SEASONABLE from March to October.
