A little girl's cookery bookBenton, Caroline French
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A little girl's cookery book
Benton, Caroline French
Cooking -- Juvenile literature
Spread very thin on the baking-sheet. When done, take off in squares;
let them get a little cool, and then roll them round the handle of a
wooden spoon; don’t let them get too stiff or they will not roll.
LAYER CAKE
1 cup sugar.
½ cup water.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder.
½ cup butter.
2½ cups flour.
Teaspoonful vanilla.
Rub the butter to a cream in a deep bowl, and put in the sugar a little
at a time, and rub this till it, too, creams. Then put in the beaten
yolks of the eggs, and then the water. Beat the egg-whites well, and
fold in half, then add the flour, in which you have mixed and sifted
the baking-powder, and then put in the vanilla and the rest of the eggs.
Divide in two layers, or in three if the tins are small, and bake till
a light brown.
DANISH CAKES
5 oz. flour.
¼ lb. butter.
2 oz. brown sugar.
A few drops of vanilla.
1 egg.
1 oz. cocoanut.
Rub butter in flour, add sugar and vanilla, mix with yolk of egg, roll
out and cut out with round cutter, brush tops over with the white of
egg, sprinkle over with cocoanut, and bake in moderate oven about
quarter of an hour.
COCOANUT CAKES
¼ lb. cocoanut.
Whites of 2 eggs.
2 oz. castor sugar.
Beat whites to a stiff froth, then add the sugar and cocoanut, drop on
a greased tin, and bake in a quick oven.
DUNDEE CAKE
Cream together six ounces of butter and six ounces of castor sugar;
well whisk four eggs.
Sieve together eight ounces of flour with half-teaspoonful of
baking-powder, add to the flour the grated rind of one lemon. Next add
the eggs and flour alternately to the butter and sugar; stir in well;
mix together quarter-pound currants, quarter-pound sultanas, three
ounces chopped peel, and one ounce shredded almonds. Add these to the
other ingredients, mixing well. Put mixture into a lined tin, sprinkle
almonds on the top, and bake one and a half hours.
JOU CAKE
6 oz. of butter.
½ lb. of castor sugar.
¾ lb. of flour.
4 eggs.
Cup of milk.
¼ lb. of sultanas.
¼ lb. of glacé cherries, cut in half.
2 oz. of citron.
A little essence of vanilla.
2 teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
First prepare a deep Yorkshire pudding-tin, grease it well, and line
it with white paper, and cut. Make it fit the tin; then grease the
inside paper well and dust over with sugar. Put the butter into a
deep basin and beat well to a cream, then add the sugar and work that
in well, then the eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly. Add the
fruit and the essence, mix the baking-powder with the flour, and stir
in gradually to the other ingredients; lastly, stir in a teacupful of
milk and pour into the tin, and bake three-quarters of an hour without
opening the oven door if possible. If the oven is very hot, put some
paper over the top to prevent it getting too brown. The cake can be cut
up into any shapes, as it is two and a half inches high when cut.
A NICE RICH CAKE
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