Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipesAllinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
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Dr. Allinson's cookery book, comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)
Vegetarian cooking
4 eggs, their weight in sugar, 1/2 their weight in butter, twice their
weight in meal, 1/2 oz. of seed, a little lukewarm milk. Cream the
butter first, then add the yolks of eggs, the sugar, seed, and meal,
and enough milk to moisten the mixture; lastly, add the whites of the
eggs beaten to a froth, and bake at once in a fairly quick oven.
SLY CAKES.
1 lb. Allinson wholemeal flour, 8 oz. butter, 8 oz. currants, 2 oz.
sugar, and 6 drops essence of lemon; mix the flour and sugar, and make
it into a smooth paste with water, but do not make it very wet. Roll
out 3 times, and spread in the butter as for pastry; roll it very
thin, and cut into rounds or square cakes. Spread half of them very
thickly with currants, press the others very gently on the top, so as
to form a sandwich, and bake in a quick oven till a light brown.
SPONGE CAKE (1).
6 oz. fine wheatmeal, 1/2 lb. castor sugar, 4 eggs, any flavouring to
taste. Beat up the eggs, sift in the sugar, then the flour, and bake
the mixture in a well-greased cake tin in a moderate oven from 1 to
1-1/2 hours.
SPONGE CAKE (2).
4 eggs, the weight of 3 in fine wheatmeal, and the weight of 4 in
castor sugar, any flavouring to taste. Beat the eggs, sift in the
sugar and meal, stirring all the time, add the flavouring, and pour
the mixture into one or two greased cake tins, only filling them half
full. Bake in a moderate oven for about an hour, until a knitting
needle comes out clean.
SPONGE CAKE ROLY-POLY.
3 eggs, the weight of 2 in fine wheatmeal, of 8 in castor sugar, some
raspberry and currant jam. Mix the ingredients as directed in "Sponge
Cake," line a large, square, flat baking tin with buttered paper, pour
the mixture into it, and bake it in a fairly hot oven from 7 to 12
minutes, or until baked through. Have a sheet of white kitchen paper
on the kitchen table, on which sprinkle some white sugar. Turn the
cake out of the tin on to the paper, spread the cake with jam, and
roll up. This should be done quickly, for if the cake is allowed to
cool it will not roll.
UNFERMENTED BREAD.
This is as sweet and pure a bread as the finger-rolls, and keeps fresh
for several days, as it has to be mixed fairly moist. 2 lbs. of
Allinson wholemeal, 1-1/2 pints of milk and water; mix these to a
thick paste, and put the mixture into some small greased bread tins.
Loaves the size of the twopenny loaves will want 1-1/2 hours in a hot
oven.
UNFERMENTED FINGER-ROLLS.
These are bread in the simplest and purest form, and liked by most. 1
lb. of Allinson wholemeal, a good 1/2 pint of milk and water mixed;
mix the meal and the milk and water into a dough, knead it a few
minutes, then make the dough into finger-rolls on a floured
pastry-board, rolling the finger-rolls about 3 inches long with the
flat hand. Place them on a floured baking-tin, and bake them in a
sharp oven from 1/2 an hour to 1 hour. The time will depend on the
heat of the oven. In a very hot oven the rolls will be well baked in
1/2 an hour.
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