The
“Ideal”
Cookery
Book _THIRD EDITION._
A Reliable Guide to Home Cooking
_Containing 246 Useful and Dainty Recipes_
BY
LILIAN CLARKE
BRUMBY & CLARKE, LIMITED, HULL
AND 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, LONDON, E.C.
PREFACE.
Of the making of Cookery Books, we are told, there is no end, but the
comparative worthlessness of their contents for practical domestic
purposes is no doubt the reason why there is still as great a demand as
ever for a thoroughly reliable and up-to-date volume.
The little book I now offer to the public, claims to be the _best,
cheapest, and most useful_ Culinary Handbook yet produced, and I
venture to think its contents will fully justify this assertion.
A large proportion of the recipes are my _own compilation_, and all
alike have been _carefully revised and repeatedly tested_.
Every recipe has been arranged with a view to _practical usefulness_,
and may be confidently recommended for _ease of preparation_,
_daintiness_, and _economy_.
Those who once use the “IDEAL COOKERY BOOK,” will afterwards use no
other, not because their years have been shortened by bad cooking and
unwholesome food, but because they recognise in it all the qualities it
claims to possess, and are able by its aid to _realize in the home the
true “Ideal” of the Culinary Art_.
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
I. Savouries.
PAGE
1. Forcemeat 13
2. Mince Meat 13
3. Potato Balls 13
4. Tasty Dish of Cold Cooked Beef 14
5. Savoury Puffs 14
6. Breakfast Dish 14
7. Potato Cakes 14
8. Veal Mould 15
9. Timbales of Mutton 15
10. Rolled Steak with Potatoes 16
11. Salad Dressing 16
12. Cabbage Balls 16
13. Cheese Croquettes 16
14. Potato Ribbons 17
15. Rissoles à Lilian 17
16. Fish Cakes 17
17. Savoury Omelette 18
18. Dough Nuts 18
19. Cheese Straws 18
20. Egg and Bacon Pie 19
21. Another Cold Meat Dish 19
22. Scrambled Eggs 19
23. Meat Roll 19
24. Pommes de Terre à la Reine 20
25. Dormers 20
26. Beef or Veal Mould 20
27. Gravy for Mutton 21
28. Gravy for Beef 21
29. Beefsteak Pie 21
30. Tasty Dish of Beefsteak 22
31. Cold Meat Pâtés 22
32. Potted Beef 22
33. Pommes de terre au Lait 23
34. Pommes de terre à L’Écosse 23
35. Potato Croquettes 23
36. A dainty way of Cooking an Egg 24
37. Beef Tea Custard 24
38. Beef Tea 24
39. Dainty way of Serving Mashed Potatoes 25
40. Fried Potatoes 25
41. Ragôut of Mutton and Eggs 25
II. Pastry.
1. Short Pastry (_Rich_) 26
2. Ground Rice Cheesecakes 26
3. Cocoanut Cheesecakes 26
4. Macaroons 27
5. Maids of Honour 27
6. Lemon Curd 27
7. Welsh Cheesecakes 27
8. Milk Rolls 28
9. Almond Cheesecakes 28
10. Bakewell Cheesecakes 28
11. Pastry Sandwiches 28
12. French Tartlets 29
13. Apple Cheesecakes 29
14. Good Family Pastry 29
15. Pie Pastry 29
III. Custards, Puddings, and Blanc Manges.
1. Lemon Rice Pudding 30
2. Sponge Cake Pudding 30
3. Strawberry Blanc Mange 30
4. Honeycomb 31
5. Lemon Mould 31
6. Baroness Pudding 31
7. Holderness Pudding 32
8. Lemon Pudding 32
9. Parson’s Pudding 32
10. Queen’s Pudding 32
11. Ideal Pudding 33
12. Curd Pudding 33
13. Chocolate Blanc Mange 33
14. Suet Dumplings 34
15. Snow Pudding 34
16. French Pancakes 34
17. German Pancakes 34
18. Junket 35
19. Three Minutes Pudding 35
20. German Pudding 35
21. Rhubarb Mould 36
22. Imperial Pudding 36
23. Fig Pudding (_No. 1._) 36
24. Sultana Pudding 37
25. Trieste Pudding 37
26. Stewed Figs 37
27. Baked Milk (_For Fruit_) 37
28. Baked Rhubarb Pudding 38
29. Apple Snow 38
30. Prune Mould 38
31. Bachelor’s Pudding 39
32. Raspberry Sponge 39
33. Lemon Cream 39
34. Gâteau de Riz 40
35. Kingston Puddings 40
36. Fig Puddings (_No. 2._) 40
37. Cheese Pudding (_No. 1._) 41
38. Paragon Pudding 41
39. Cambridge Pudding 41
40. Sago Kelley 42
41. Orange Meringue 42
42. Spanish Custard 42
43. Cheese Pudding (_No. 2._) 43
44. Apple Trifle 43
45. Economic Custard 43
46. Tasmanian Pudding 43
47. Yorkshire Pudding 44
48. Steamed Batter Pudding 44
49. Chocolate Pudding 44
50. Gêlée à la Normandie 45
51. Chocolate Blanc Mange 45
52. Eastbourne Pudding 45
53. Summerville Plum Pudding 45
54. Victoria Pudding 46
55. Prune Gâteau 46
56. Raspberry Pudding 46
57. Rice Pudding 47
58. Small Sago Pudding 47
59. Ground Rice Pudding 47
60. Custard Pudding 48
61. Stewed Pears 48
62. Harrogate Pudding 48
IV. Sauces.
1. Apple Sauce 49
2. Bread Sauce 49
3. Melted Butter 49
4. Egg Sauce 50
5. White Sauce 50
6. Mint Sauce 50
7. Onion Sauce 50
V. Cakes.
1. Madeira Cake 51
2. Beverleigh Buns 52
3. Queen Cakes 52
4. Raspberry Sandwich 52
5. Rock Buns 52
6. Cornflour Cake 53
7. Oatmeal Buns 53
8. Lemon Sandwich Cakes 53
9. Yorkshire Parkin 53
10. Drummond Cake 54
11. Gingerbread 54
12. Ginger Nuts 54
13. Victoria Roll 55
14. Yorkshire Cake 55
15. Sally Lunn Teacakes (_No. 1._) 55
16. Summerville Cakes 55
17. Soda Cake 56
18. Brunswick Cakes 56
19. Jordan Cakes 56
20. Lunch Cake 56
21. Plain Plum Cake 57
22. Rice Buns 57
23. Raspberry Buns 57
24. Walnut Cake 58
25. Icing for Walnut Cake 58
26. Cocoanut Pyramids 58
27. London Buns 58
28. Victoria Buns 59
29. Norwegian Cake 59
30. Sultana Cake 59
31. Cocoanut Cake 59
32. Lancashire Parkin 60
33. Delicious Cake 60
34. Chocolate Cake 60
35. Rich Plum Cake 61
36. Plain Seed or Currant Loaf 61
37. Malta Cake 61
38. Small Rice Cake 62
39. Parisian Sandwich 62
40. Sultana Scones 62
41. York Teacakes 63
42. Fairy Cakes 63
43. Orange Rock Cakes 63
44. Jersey Cake 63
45. Seed Bread (_To Butter_) 64
46. Queen Anne’s Cake 64
47. Spice Bread 64
48. Bachelor’s Buttons 65
49. Cocoanut Fingers 65
50. Victorine Buns 65
51. Orange Cakes 66
52. Ginger Cakes 66
53. Cherry Cakes 66
54. Small Seed Cakes 67
55. Demon Jumbles 67
56. Cocoanut Gingerbread 67
57. Lemon Buns 68
58. Ashton Sandwiches 68
59. Christmas or Wedding Cake 68
60. Split Cakes 69
61. Baking Powder Rolls 69
62. American Cake 70
63. Shrewsbury Cakes 70
64. Swiss Roll 71
65. Westwood Buns 71
66. Sally Lunn Teacakes (_No. 2._) 71
67. Queen Cakes (_No. 2._) 72
68. Neapolitan Ribbon Cake 72
69. Clancarthy Buns 73
70. Spice Bread 73
71. Swiss Cakes (_Another Method_) 73
72. Genoa Cake 74
73. Fairy Baskets 74
74. Fancy Bread (_Without Yeast_) 75
VI. Biscuits.
1. Picnic Biscuits 76
2. Rice Biscuits 76
3. Shrewsbury Biscuits 76
4. Ginger Drops 77
5. Seventy Little Biscuits for 2d. 77
6. Ginger Biscuits 77
7. Rice Biscuits 77
8. Seed Biscuits 78
9. Soda Biscuits 78
10. Sweet Biscuits 78
11. Chestnut Biscuits 78
12. Cocoanut Biscuits 79
13. Four pounds of Biscuits for 8d. 79
14. Chocolate Biscuits 79
15. Cinnamon Stars 79
16. Ratafias 80
17. Almond Rings 80
18. Cheese Straws 80
19. Patent Barley Biscuits 80
VII. Bon Bons.
1. French Almond Rock 81
2. Candy Dough 81
3. Candy Cherries 81
4. Almond Creams 82
5. Walnut Creams 82
6. Cream Dates 82
7. Brandy Snap (_No. 1._) 82
8. Raspberry Rock 82
9. Cocoanut Fondant 83
10. Chocolate or Coffee Fondant 83
11. Nougat 83
12. Gelées Françaises 84
13. Chestnut Bonbons 84
14. Chocolate Baisers 84
15. Yorkshire Toffee 84
16. Brandy Snap (_No. 2._) 85
17. Marmalade 85
18. Patent Groats 85
VIII. Beverages.
1. Apple Wine 86
2. Barley Water 86
3. Ginger Beer 86
4. Ginger Wine 87
5. Lemon Squash 87
6. Lemon Water 87
IX. Additional Useful Recipes.
1. To Bottle Green Gooseberries 88
2. Gooseberry Jelly 88
3. Apple Jelly 88
4. Cough Mixture 89
5. Pork Pie Pastry 89
6. Recipe for Keeping Eggs 89
I. SAVOURIES.
The general rule for roasting or boiling joints is to allow a quarter
of an hour for each pound and half an hour over, unless the meat is
preferred underdone.
1. Forcemeat.
2-oz. ham.
¼-lb. suet
6-oz. bread crumbs.
2 eggs.
Salt and pepper.
Make it into balls or use as stuffing. Bake ½ hour.
2. Mince Meat.
1¼-lb. raisins.
¾-lb. sultanas.
1-lb. currants.
½-lb. suet.
¼-lb. peel.
1-lb. sugar.
1-lb. apples.
1-gill of Rum.
Chop the suet very fine, stone the raisins and chop them, chop the
sultanas, peel, and apples, and add the currants. Put in a bowl with
the sugar and rum and mix very thoroughly. Put in jars and tie down.
3. Potato Balls.
Mash the potatoes--season with pepper and salt and little chopped
parsley and bind with yolk of egg. Form into balls, dip in egg and
bread crumbs and fry in boiling fat or in the oven--serve hot.
4. Tasty dish of Cold Cooked Beef.
Butter a pie dish and scatter with bread crumbs and chopped parsley.
Arrange layer of slices of beef with pepper and salt. Next, layer of
crumbs, then beef, placing sippets of bread on the top. Pour gravy
over, and bake 2 hours.
5. Savoury Puffs.
½-lb. potatoes, yolk of 1 egg, 2-oz. flour, pepper, salt, and cold
meat. Mash the potatoes, add yolk of egg and seasoning, blend well
into dry dough, roll ¼ inch thick, cut in rounds and fill with rissole
mixture, fold over and press together. Fry brown and serve.
6. Breakfast Dish.
Boil two eggs twelve minutes and put in cold water. When cool remove
shells, dry with flour, cover each with sausage meat, egg and bread
crumbs, and fry in boiling fat till brown. Cut in halves and serve.
7. Potato Cakes.
1-lb. mashed potatoes.
2 yolks of eggs.
½-lb. flour.
Little salt.
Mix flour and potato, bind with yolks, and season. Roll out half inch
thick. Bake in quick oven. Split open and butter. Serve very hot.
8. Veal Mould.
1-lb. veal.
½-lb. fat bacon.
Little parsley.
Grated rind of 1 lemon.
4 eggs.
1-gill of stock.
Pepper and salt.
Boil the eggs hard and cut in slices. Chop the parsley and mix it with
the rind and seasonings. Line a plain mould with pieces of egg at the
bottom. Cut up the veal in neat, square pieces, and put in the mould
in alternate layers with cut-up bacon and sliced eggs, sprinkling each
layer with seasoning. When full, pour in the stock. Cover tightly with
buttered paper, putting a plate and weight on the top. Bake in a slow
oven for 4 hours. Turn out when cold.
9. Timbales of Mutton.
½-lb. cold minced mutton.
¼-lb. finely chopped mushrooms.
1 teaspoonful chopped parsley.
Salt and pepper.
2-oz. bread crumbs.
¼-pint gravy.
2 eggs.
1 teaspoonful anchovy essence.
Put the meat, crumbs, parsley and seasonings in a basin, mix well and
add beaten eggs. Put into well buttered castle pudding tins, cover with
buttered paper, and steam ½ hour. Turn out and serve with a brown or
tomato sauce. Any cold meat may be used this way.
10. Rolled Steak with Potatoes.
About 2-lbs. (sufficient for five persons) of lean, thick beefsteak.
Cut in thin slices and roll each piece up with the fat in the middle.
Place in a large dish and add pepper and salt. Fill up with cold water
and put in the oven for 2 hours. If the gravy boils away, fill up with
boiling water. Place whole, pared potatoes on the top one hour before
the dinner is wanted. Bake the potatoes brown. Serve in the dish.
11. Salad Dressing.
The yolk of 1 egg, a little mustard and salt, 1 teaspoonful sugar, 1
tablespoonful cream, and a little vinegar.
12. Cabbage Balls.
Mince some cold cabbage finely, mix with an equal part of bread crumbs,
season with pepper and salt, and bind with the beaten egg. Form into
large sized balls, roll in flour, and fry in boiling fat. Drain on
paper, sprinkle with salt, pile in a pyramid, and serve hot, with gravy.
13. Cheese Croquettes.
2-oz. grated cheese, mixed with some cold mashed potatoes, season with
pepper and salt, and add about 2-oz. bread crumbs. Mix with half of a
beaten egg, and form into balls. Dip them in rest of egg, and fry in
boiling fat or bake in a tin with dripping in the oven. Serve hot.
14. Potato Ribbons.
Peel the potatoes, then peel round and round very thinly. Let them lie
in cold water for an hour, drain, place in frying basket, plunge into
hot fat, drain on paper and serve hot.
15. Rissoles à Lilian.
Cold meat.
1 egg.
½-pint bread crumbs.
Seasoning and gravy.
Mince the meat finely, and put in a bowl with bread crumbs. Bind with
the egg and a little gravy, but they must be stiff. Put a little of the
mixture in the bottom of a floured teacup and press it down, then turn
out into well-greased dripping tin and bake. Serve hot, with gravy.
16. Fish Cakes.
½-lb. cold fish.
½ teaspoonful salt.
Bread crumbs.
½-lb. mashed potatoes.
¼ teaspoonful pepper.
2-oz. butter.
Remove bones from fish, mix with the potato, and add the melted butter,
salt, pepper and one and a half beaten eggs. Make into flat round
cakes, brush over with rest of egg and cover with bread crumbs. Fry in
hot fat 4 or 5 minutes. Drain and serve hot.
17. Savoury Omelette.
1-oz. butter.
2 eggs.
Chopped parsley.
Pepper and salt.
Beat eggs slightly, and add seasoning. When the butter is hot in the
frying-pan, pour in the eggs, stir to prevent sticking, and as soon as
it commences to set, draw towards the handle of the pan, turn over and
cook for a minute. Serve hot.
18. Dough Nuts.
1-oz. castor sugar.
½-lb. flour.
2-oz. butter.
1 egg.
Spice or ginger.
1-gill milk.
Pinch of salt.
Rub butter into flour, mix dry ingredients, make into a paste with egg
and milk, roll out, cut with a round cutter, then take the centre out
with a smaller one, fry in hot fat and dredge freely with sugar.
19. Cheese Straws.
2-oz. butter.
3-oz. grated cheese.
1 tablespoonful water.
Salt.
2-oz. flour.
1 yolk of egg.
Pepper.
Cayenne.
Mix well, roll into fingers and rings. Bake 7 minutes. When cold put
two or three straws through each ring.
20. Egg & Bacon Pie.
Put a layer of pastry in a soup plate, put small pieces of cooked ham
or bacon in, beat one or more eggs, season with pepper, pour over the
bacon, and cover with pastry and bake.
21. Another Cold Meat Dish.
Make a batter of 3 tablespoonsful of flour, ½-pint of milk, one
egg. Chop the meat, add half a boiled onion, ½ teaspoonful chopped
parsley, and salt. Stir into the batter. Grease a pie dish, stir in the
omelette, and bake ½ hour. Turn out on a dish, and serve with gravy.
22. Scrambled Eggs.
1 egg.
1-oz. butter.
1 tablespoonful milk.
Pepper and salt.
Put butter in pan, and when melted, add eggs and milk. Stir until it
thickens, and serve on buttered toast. Use more eggs for more than one
person.
23. Meat Roll.
1-lb. beefsteak or veal (minced raw).
¾-lb. minced ham.
2 eggs.
6-ozs. bread crumbs.
Mix all well together, and form into a roll, place in a cloth tied at
each end, and steam 2 hours. Serve hot or cold.
24. Pommes de Terre à la Reine.
Take some boiled potatoes and mash them finely. Take any cold meat, and
chop it also finely. Make the meat and potato in little balls, cover
with egg and bread crumbs, and fry in boiling fat. Serve on a d’oyley.
Gravy is an improvement.
25. Dormers.
½-lb. cold meat.
3-ozs. boiled rice.
Pepper, salt.
2-ozs. suet.
1 egg.
Bread crumbs.
Gravy.
Chop the meat and suet and rice finely. Mix well together and add
seasoning and egg. Roll in shapes, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and fry
in hot dripping a light brown.
26. Beef or Veal Mould.
1-lb. beef or veal.
½ small packet of gelatine.
2 eggs.
Put the gelatine to soak in a little cold water. Cut the meat into
small pieces, or put through the mincing machine, and stew till tender
in enough water to cover it. Boil the eggs hard and arrange them in a
mould. Add the gelatine to the liquid, and pour the whole into a mould
and put in a cool place to set. There should not be more liquid than
will fill the mould.
27. Gravy for Mutton.
Pour off nearly all the fat from the joint, and make a thin gravy by
pouring boiling water over the meat. Replace in the oven and boil a few
minutes. Add a little gravy browning if liked, also add pepper and salt.
28. Gravy for Beef.
Pour off nearly all the dripping from the joint. Pour boiling water
over the meat and season with pepper and salt, adding gravy browning
if desired. Mix a little flour and cold water to a smooth paste, and
thicken with boiling water, and add to the gravy, stirring thoroughly
and returning to the oven to boil.
29. Beefsteak Pie.
Take from 1 to 2 lbs. of beefsteak, according to the quantity required,
and cut into small pieces. Place it in a pan with sufficient cold water
to cover. Season with pepper and salt, and stew for 1½ hours. Have
ready a pie dish lined with crust, into which put the stewed steak and
part of the gravy. Put on the cover and bake about ¾ of an hour. Use
the rest of the gravy as required. Make the crust according to “Pie
Pastry” recipe.
30. Tasty Dish of Beefsteak.
Take as much beefsteak as is required and place it in an enamelled pie
dish, cover with cold water and put into the oven to stew, placing an
inverted pie dish on the top. Season with pepper and salt. Add more
boiling water as the other evaporates. Stew for 2½ hours, but a quarter
of an hour before dishing up thicken the gravy with flour and water and
let it boil up.
31. Cold Meat Pâtés.
Take the remains of a joint and mince very finely. Place in a basin,
add a little gravy to moisten, and mix well, seasoning with pepper and
salt.
Have ready some patty pans lined with pie pastry, into which put a
portion of the mince, and cover with a pastry lid. Bake until the
pastry is brown, and serve hot on a d’oyley. Put some good gravy in a
tureen to serve with the pâtés.
32. Potted Beef.
Take 1-lb. of second beefsteak and cut into small pieces, and cover
with cold water and put in a pan and stew gently for about 1½ hours.
Put through the mincing machine twice. Place in a basin and add as
much of the gravy as is necessary to moisten slightly. Mix and beat
thoroughly and put into pots, making the surface very smooth. Melt some
butter and pour a little into each pot. Decorate when cold with a sprig
of parsley.
33. Pommes de terre au Lait.
Cut some cooked potatoes into slices and lay them in a pan of warm
milk. Boil for a few minutes, when the milk will become thick. Add a
little butter, parsley, and nutmeg to the contents of the pan and serve
at once.
34. Pommes de terre à L’Écosse.
Take some large raw potatoes and cut them into square shapes. Blanch
them in salt and water, and then scoop out the centre of each potato
with a spoon. Fill up the holes with finely chopped meat or ham. Lay
the stuffed potatoes in a dripping tin, cover with gravy or water and a
little gravy browning. Bake slowly until tender, pouring the gravy over
them from time to time until they present a glacé appearance.
35. Potato Croquettes.
Take some mashed potatoes and add 2-oz. butter, 2 eggs, and ½ teacup of
flour, and a little grated nutmeg. Mix all well together, and if hot,
let it get cold. Form into fingers, cover with egg and flour, and fry
in boiling fat.
36. A dainty way of Cooking an Egg.
Take a large saucer, and rub it with butter, and set it over a pan of
boiling water. Beat an egg lightly with 1 tablespoonful of milk and a
pinch of pepper and salt. Strain into the saucer, cover it, and leave
for 10 minutes to cook.
37. Beef Tea Custard.
Beat a fresh egg, strain into a gill of beef tea, and add salt to
taste. Turn into a small buttered cup, cover with buttered paper, and
steam 20 minutes. The water should not boil. This can be turned out and
eaten either hot or cold.
38. Beef Tea.
Take 1-lb. of steak, neck, or shin of beef. Cut it into small pieces,
put it into a basin, and cover with cold water, leaving for an hour or
two. Place in a double pan or in any pan that will allow the contents
to gently simmer, and simmer for two or three hours, when it will be
ready for use. Add salt and pepper if desired.
39. Dainty way of Serving Mashed Potatoes.
Steam the potatoes for about half an hour, mash well or put through a
potato sieve. Have ready a basin, the bottom and sides of which have
been greased with lard or butter and sprinkled with bread raspings.
Press the potatoes into the basin and turn out into a tureen.
40. Fried Potatoes.
Peel the potatoes and leave whole, unless very large. Place in a
dripping tin, in which there is a depth of an inch of hot dripping,
and put into a fairly hot oven. As the potatoes brown on the one side,
turn on the other. When cooked, which should be in about half an hour,
strain well and serve in a tureen.
41. Ragôut of Mutton and Eggs.
Mince finely any cold mutton and season with pepper and salt. Place
in a dish in the oven and simmer half an hour. Fry as many eggs as
required, and have ready a hot dish with pieces of toast arranged on
it. Turn the meat on to the dish and place the eggs on the top and
serve.
II. PASTRY.
1. Short Pastry (Rich).
6-ozs. flour.
4-ozs. butter.
1-oz. castor sugar.
Pinch of salt.
Yolk of egg.
Water.
Mix sugar and salt with flour, rub the butter lightly in, add yolk of
egg and enough water to make into a stiff paste. Roll out once, and it
is ready for use.
2. Ground Rice Cheesecakes.
Breakfast cup of ground rice.
Ditto of castor sugar.
1 egg.
¼-lb. butter.
Almond flavouring.
Cream the butter and sugar, add egg, rice, etc. Mix well and use.
3. Cocoanut Cheesecakes.
2-ozs. cocoanut.
1½-ozs. castor sugar.
1 tablespoonful flour.
1½-ozs. butter.
1 egg.
Cream the butter and sugar, add egg and flour, and lastly cocoanut. Put
a spoonful of the mixture into patty pans lined with pastry and bake.
4. Macaroons.
2 eggs (whites).
Pinch of salt.
2-oz. castor sugar.
2-ozs. ground almonds.
Whip the whites to a stiff froth, add sugar and almonds. Fill patty
pans and bake.
5. Maids of Honour.
½-lb. castor sugar.
3 eggs.
2-oz. butter.
2 lemons.
Put the butter into a pan, and when melted, stir sugar in, then add
grated rind of one lemon and the juice of two. Add beaten eggs, and
simmer gently till thick. Fill lined patty pans with the mixture and
bake.
6. Lemon Curd.
1-lb. lump sugar.
3 eggs.
¼-lb. butter.
2 lemons.
Melt the butter and sugar in a pan, add juice of lemons and beaten eggs
and stir until it is very thick. Put in jars and when cold, tie down.
It will keep for months.
7. Welsh Cheesecakes.
Line tart tins with pastry and fill with mixture made of the weight of
1 egg in butter, sugar and flour and 1 teaspoonful baking powder. Put
a little jam in bottom of tins and then a spoonful of mixture. Bake in
moderate oven.
8. Milk Rolls.
Dissolve ½-oz. yeast in ¾-pint milk. Add pinch of salt and mix to a
smooth dough with flour. Set to rise 2 hours, turn on board and form
into twists, coils, &c. Set to rise again, brush with milk and bake.
9. Almond Cheesecakes.
4-oz. ground almonds.
1 egg.
4-oz. castor sugar.
2-oz. butter.
Mix well together. Line patty pans and fill with mixture. Place bars of
pastry across and bake.
10. Bakewell Cheesecakes.
Weight of 1 egg in butter, sugar and flour.
½ teaspoonful baking powder.
1 egg.
½ grated lemon.
Line patty pans with pastry, put in each a little jam, then the mixture.
11. Pastry Sandwiches.
Make some short crust with 3-oz. butter and ½-lb. flour. Roll out half
the pastry, spread with jam, cover with the other half and bake. When
cold, ice evenly and dry in a slow oven or near the fire.
12. French Tartlets.
2 eggs.
¼-lb. crushed ratafias.
2-ozs. castor sugar.
Put a spoonful of mixture in each lined tin, then a spoonful of jam,
then the mixture on the top and bake.
13. Apple Cheesecakes.
¼-lb. apple pulp.
2-ozs. sugar.
2 yolks.
2-ozs. butter.
Rind and juice of ½ lemon.
1 white of egg.
Melt the butter, and add to the apple with lemon and sugar, and lastly,
beaten yolks and stiff white.
14. Good Family Pastry.
To every pound of flour allow ½-lb. of lard and ½ teaspoonful of salt.
Rub the lard in, and mix to smooth paste with water. Roll out once
altogether, and then use as required. Bake in a quick oven. Add 1-oz.
more lard to make extra good.
15. Pie Pastry.
To every pound of flour, allow 3-ozs. of lard, 3-ozs. of dripping, 3
teaspoonsful baking powder, and half a teaspoonful salt. Mix to a stiff
dough with cold water and use as required.
III. CUSTARDS, PUDDINGS, & BLANC MANGES.
1. Lemon Rice Pudding.
Boil a cup of rice until soft, put in dish and add grated rind of 1
lemon, yolks of 2 eggs, little more than 1 pint of milk and a pinch of
salt.
Bake 1 hour. Beat to froth the whites of eggs with 1 cup of powdered
sugar and the juice of 1 lemon. Spread over pudding when cold and put
in the oven to brown.
2. Sponge Cake Pudding.
Split some sponge cakes into slices and spread with jam and place in
a pie dish. Beat 2 eggs and 1 dessertspoonful of sugar together, add
½-pint milk, a little nutmeg, and stir. Pour the custard over the cakes
in the dish. Bake in a slow oven till set--about ½ hour.
3. Strawberry Blanc Mange.
2 tablespoonsful cornflour.
1 leaf of strawberries.
1½-pints milk.
2 tablespoonsful sugar.
Mix the cornflour with a little milk then add the rest and boil till
stiff. Add sugar and pour into mould and push strawberries down here
and there.
4. Honeycomb.
3 teacups milk.
3 eggs.
1 small teacup sugar.
½-oz. gelatine.
Soak gelatine for 1 hour in a teacup of milk, put the remainder of the
milk over the fire with the sugar and gelatine till dissolved.
Add beaten yolks of eggs to the milk and stir well until on the verge
of boiling.
Have the whites beaten to a stiff froth in a bowl, into which pour the
contents of the pan. Stir up quickly and pour into a mould until set.
5. Lemon Mould.
2-oz. cornflour.
1-pint water.
6-oz. castor sugar.
2 lemons.
Yolks of 2 eggs.
Mix the cornflour with a little of the water and put rest of water in
a pan with sugar and lemon rind. Bring to a boil and boil 5 minutes.
Strain into cornflour the lemon juice and yolks of eggs. Stir till it
boils and boil 3 minutes.
6. Baroness Pudding.
¾-lb. suet.
¾-lb. flour.
¾-lb. raisins.
½-pint milk.
Chop the suet, stone the raisins and cut in halves and mix with the
flour. Moisten with milk and boil 4 hours.
7. Holderness Pudding.
½-lb. suet.
½-lb. raisins.
4 tablespoonsful treacle.
½-lb. currants.
½-lb. bread crumbs.
1-pint milk.
Chop the suet and stone the raisins and mix all well together and boil
3½ hours.
8. Lemon Pudding.
10-oz. bread crumbs.
2-oz. butter.
4 eggs.
2-pints milk.
¼-lb. sugar.
Grated rind of 1 lemon.
Bring the milk to boiling point, stir the butter in, and add the other
ingredients. Put pastry round a dish, fill with the mixture, and bake ¾
hour.
9. Parson’s Pudding.
¼-lb. chopped suet.
¼-lb. currants.
1 tablespoonful moist sugar.
¼-lb. flour.
¼-lb. raisins.
½ teaspoonful ground ginger.
½ teaspoonful salt.
Mix well and boil 3 hours.
10. Queen’s Pudding.
4-oz. bread crumbs.
4 tablespoonsful strawberry jam.
Place in a pie dish, and pour custard on made from 1 egg and 1-pint
milk. Bake ½ hour.
11. Ideal Pudding.
½-pint bread crumbs.
Grated rind of 1 lemon.
1-oz. butter.
1-pint boiling milk.
1 tablespoonful sugar.
Yolks of 2 eggs.
Butter a dish, pour in the mixture and bake until set. Beat the whites
of eggs and pile on the top of pudding and put in the oven to brown.
12. Curd Pudding.
1-lb. curd.
3 tablespoonsful bread crumbs.
1 tablespoonful milk.
2-oz. butter.
2 tablespoonsful sugar.
2 eggs.
Mix all together, and bake 20 minutes in the dish. Good either hot or
cold.
13. Chocolate Blanc Mange.
1-oz. gelatine.
1-pint milk.
2-oz. grated chocolate or cocoa.
¼-lb. sugar.
Dissolve the gelatine in half of the pint of milk. Grate the chocolate
and mix it and the sugar to a smooth paste with a little milk. Place
the gelatine on the fire with rest of milk and when nearly boiling add
the chocolate, &c. Boil for 12 minutes, stirring all the time one way.
Put in a mould.
14. Suet Dumplings.
½-lb. suet.
¾-lb. flour.
Chop suet very fine, add flour and 1 teaspoonful baking powder (if
liked). Mix with water and boil. Be sure the water is boiling.
15. Snow Pudding.
½ small packet of gelatine.
Juice of 2 lemons.
5-oz. castor sugar.
Whites of 3 eggs.
Put gelatine to soak in teacup of cold water for about ½ hour. Then
pour breakfast cup of boiling water on, when quite dissolved add lemon
juice and sugar, strain, add whites of eggs put in large bowl and beat
with egg whisk about ½ hour--more in hot weather.
16. French Pancakes.
3 eggs.
3-oz. sifted sugar.
¾-pint of warmed milk.
3-oz. butter.
3-oz. flour.
Beat eggs and add to butter, stir in sugar and flour. Mix well and add
the milk and beat a few minutes. Put on a buttered dish, and bake 20
minutes.
17. German Pancakes.
2 tablespoonsful flour.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoonsful castor sugar.
½ cup milk.
Bake very quickly and eat at once.
18. Junket.
1-pint new milk.
3 or 4 nibs of sugar.
1 tablespoonful rennet.
Little nutmeg.
Make the milk warm, put the sugar in a basin, pour the milk into it and
stir well until the sugar is dissolved, then add the rennet and stir
very quickly, put in a cool place as gently as possible.
19. Three Minutes Pudding.
1 tablespoonful flour.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
1 tablespoonful sugar.
1 egg.
Beat the egg, add sugar &c., and beat well. Place in a dripping tin and
bake lightly. Take very quickly from the tin and spread with preserve
and roll up and sift sugar over. Eat with plain sauce.
20. German Pudding.
Toast some thin slices of stale bread quite brown, put in a dish with
jam between. Make a cold custard, of an egg and sufficient milk to fill
the dish, and 1 tablespoonful of sugar. Mix and pour over the toast and
stand 20 minutes. Put a little dripping on the top and bake brown.
21. Rhubarb Mould.
Rhubarb sufficient to fill a quart basin. Put in pan with 1-gill of
water and boil gently. Add sugar to taste with a little lemon juice,
stir well and pour out. Put with it ½-oz. gelatine (previously soaked
and dissolved). Add 5 or 6 drops of cochineal. Beat the rhubarb briskly
and when well mixed and cool turn into mould and leave to set. Serve
with whipped cream.
22. Imperial Pudding.
Grate 6-oz. bread crumbs, pare, core and slice 6-oz. apples. Well
grease pie dish, strew bread crumbs over the bottom and sides, cut a
thin slice of bread and lay in the bottom of dish on the crumbs, put
layer of apples and grate some nutmeg and strew 1 tablespoonful sugar
over the apples; next, layer of crumbs, then apples, &c., finishing
with crumbs. Mix 1 egg with ½-pint milk, pour over pudding, put a piece
of dripping on the top, place in the oven, and bake ¾ hour. Turn out on
hot dish.
23. Fig Pudding, (No. 1.)
¼-lb. flour.
¼-lb. suet.
¼-lb. bread crumbs.
6-oz. chopped figs.
Mix with 2 eggs, and boil 2 or 3 hours.
24. Sultana Pudding.
6-oz. flour.
3-oz. sultanas.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
3-oz. suet.
1-oz. sugar.
1 egg.
Make to stiff dough with a little milk, and boil 3 hours.
25. Trieste Pudding.
Pare and core 1-lb. apples and stew in a little water and sugar to
taste with a few cloves. When cool mix a teacupful of bread crumbs
and yolks of 2 eggs with the apple. The bread should absorb the apple
juice, if not add more bread. Warm 1-oz. butter and stir in. Place in
greased dish, and bake 40 minutes. Whip whites of eggs to stiff froth,
pile on the pudding and lightly brown.
26. Stewed Figs.
Wash 1-lb. figs, place in pan, add enough boiling water to cover them;
add 1 tablespoonful treacle and 1 teaspoonful finely chopped lemon
peel. Cover the pan, and simmer till tender; serve cold.
27. Baked Milk (_For Fruit_).
Put ½-pint milk into a jar, and place in warm oven for 5 or 6 hours,
when it should be as thick as rich cream.
28. Baked Rhubarb Pudding.
Butter the bottom of a dish, and cover with bread crumbs, then a layer
of rhubarb, cut in 1-inch pieces. Sprinkle 1 tablespoonful of sugar
over, and fill the dish with alternate layers; the last layer must be
crumbs. Put a few bits of butter on the top and bake 1 hour.
29. Apple Snow.
Place sponge cakes in a glass dish, cover with custard, and leave to
soak a few hours. Cover with dry stewed apples to which has been added
sugar and lemon juice. Pile whisked whites of two eggs on the top and
serve.
30. Prune Mould.
1-lb. prunes.
1-oz. gelatine.
Little cinnamon.
3-oz. castor sugar.
Few strips lemon rind.
Few drops cochineal.
Clean the prunes and soak overnight, next day stew till soft, with
sugar and peel. Take out the stones, crack them, and keep the kernels.
Dissolve the gelatine in hot water, and stir into the fruit and sweeten
to taste. Have a plain mould wetted, and arrange kernels in it, and
pour in the prunes, &c., and set to cool. Turn out, scoop a hollow
place in the top of the mould with a silver knife dipped in boiling
water, and fill with whipped cream.
31. Bachelor’s Pudding.
4-oz. suet.
4-oz. flour.
4-oz. apples.
2-oz. sugar.
4-oz. bread crumbs.
4-oz. currants.
3 eggs.
Little nutmeg.
Juice of 1 lemon.
Chop the apples and suet, add currants, &c. Beat well and boil 3 hours.
32. Raspberry Sponge.
1 white of egg.
1 tablespoonful lemon juice.
¼-pint sieved jam.
1-oz. sugar.
½-oz. gelatine.
¼-pint water.
Dissolve gelatine, add egg and jam (heated to make it thin) whisk till
stiff. Pile on a glass dish. A few drops of cochineal if necessary.
33. Lemon Cream.
½-oz. gelatine.
1 pint milk.
1 egg.
½-pint water.
4-oz. sugar.
3 lemons.
Put the rind of 2 lemons in a pan with milk, and let it infuse. When
boiling, let it cool slightly, and pour on beaten egg. Melt the
gelatine in water and let it just reach boiling point, then add the
juice of 3 lemons and sugar. Slightly cool, then add to egg and milk.
If too hot it will curdle.
34. Gâteau de Riz.
1 pint milk.
2-oz. ground rice.
¼-pint sieved raspberry jam.
1½-oz. castor sugar.
½-oz. gelatine.
4 drops cochineal.
Cook the rice in the milk till it thickens, take it from the fire and
stir the sugar and jam in. Add the strained gelatine (which has been
dissolved in hot water), colour and serve. Whipped cream improves this
dish.
35. Kingston Puddings.
3-oz. butter.
2-oz. castor sugar.
3-oz. flour.
¼-pint milk.
Melt butter, add sugar, etc. Bake in buttered cups ½ hour. Serve with
sauce.
36. Fig Pudding (No. 2.)
½-lb. figs.
6-oz. brown sugar.
¼-lb. suet.
Nutmeg to taste.
½-lb. bread crumbs.
2 eggs.
4-oz. flour.
Little milk.
Mix well and steam 3 hours.
37. Cheese Pudding (No. 1).
Few slices of thin bread and butter.
1 egg.
Pepper and salt.
½-pint milk.
3-oz. grated cheese.
Bread crumbs.
Grease a pie dish, and coat with crumbs. Put in a layer of bread and
butter, then cheese and seasoning, and so on, with a layer of cheese
on the top. Beat an egg, add it to the milk, and pour it on gradually.
There will seem to be too much liquid at first, but it will soak up.
Put a few bits of butter on the top. Bake until set.
38. Paragon Pudding.
1-lb. cooked potatoes.
5-oz. loaf sugar.
2 lemons.
2-oz. butter.
2 eggs.
Pinch of salt.
Rub the potatoes through a sieve while hot, melt the butter and add it
to them, then the grated rind, sugar, eggs, and lemon juice. Stir well.
Bake in a pie dish in a moderate oven 30 minutes. Turn out and serve
hot, sprinkled with sugar.
39. Cambridge Pudding.
1-lb. flour.
1 egg.
½-lb. apples, peeled, cored and sliced.
1½-pts. skimmed milk.
2-oz. sugar.
Make a smooth batter of flour, milk, and egg, add sugar and apples.
Pour into a well-greased basin. Boil 2 hours. Any fruit can be
substituted.
40. Sago Jelly.
5-oz. sago.
2-oz. castor sugar.
1½-pints water.
raspberry jam.
Soak the sago in the water overnight, then cook it till quite clear and
tender, and add sugar and jam to taste. Add a few drops of cochineal,
and pour into a mould. Turn out when cold and serve with custard.
41. Orange Meringue.
3 oranges.
sugar to taste.
¼-oz. cornflour.
2 eggs.
½-pint milk.
Peel and slice oranges, and put them in a pie dish. Cook the rind in
the milk, and when boiling, strain the milk. Make a custard of it, and
the cornflour and yolks. Pour over oranges. When cold and set, beat the
whites stifly, add sugar and lemon juice, and pile on the top. Put in
the oven to set.
42. Spanish Custard.
3 or 4 stale sponge cakes.
2-oz. sweet almonds.
1 teaspoonful vanilla.
¼-oz. cornflour.
½-pint milk.
2 eggs.
2-oz. chocolate.
Cut the cakes in strips, and pile in a glass dish. Add the vanilla to 2
tablespoonsful of milk, and put slowly on the cake, letting it all soak
in.
Make a custard of eggs, milk, and cornflour. Melt the chocolate in
a spoonful or two of milk, and add it to the custard. Sweeten if
necessary. Pour over the cake. Blanch, roughly chop, and brown the
almonds, and scatter over the whole.
43. Cheese Pudding (No. 2).
4-ozs. bread crumbs.
2 tablespoonsful grated cheese.
Little pepper, salt and cayenne.
2 eggs.
Little milk.
Bake in a buttered dish sprinkled with grated cheese, and put small
pieces of butter on the top of the pudding.
44. Apple Trifle.
Peel and core some apples, and stew till tender, adding very little
water. Beat to a smooth pulp, sweeten to taste, flavour with lemon, and
when cold, put into a glass dish. Pour a thick custard over the apples,
and garnish with fancy biscuits.
45. Economic Custard.
Put 2 or 3 well-beaten eggs to nearly 1 quart of milk, and add about 1
tablespoonful cornflour mixed with a little of the milk. Pour into a
pan, and heat until thick enough, stirring all the time. When finished,
add sugar and flavouring to taste. Put in a cool place.
46. Tasmanian Pudding.
Take 2-oz. large sago and swell in a pan on the fire in ½-pint of milk.
Pare, core and slice 2 large apples, put them in the oven with a little
sugar and water and cook till tender. Take the sago from the fire when
it has absorbed the milk. Beat up 1 egg with 1 pint of milk, mix with
the sago, and add ½ teaspoonful grated ginger. When the apples are
tender, mix all well together, and put in a pie dish and bake ½ hour.
47. Yorkshire Pudding.
4 or 5 tablespoonsful flour.
Milk.
2 eggs.
Put the flour into a bowl and make to smooth paste with a little milk,
add the eggs without beating them, then beat 3 or 4 minutes adding more
milk until the batter is the desired thickness, (a little thinner than
cake mixture.) Have ready a dripping tin with a depth of ¼ inch of hot
dripping in it and pour the batter in and bake in a hot oven about 20
minutes.
48. Steamed Batter Pudding.
Make the same as Yorkshire pudding, putting the batter into a cloth,
wrung out in boiling water and steam 1½ hours. Serve with jam or
raspberry vinegar.
49. Chocolate Pudding.
¼-lb. bread crumbs.
2-oz. castor sugar.
1-pint milk.
2 eggs.
1-oz. cocoa.
vanilla essence.
Boil the milk, add the cocoa, stir in the bread crumbs, sugar, yolks of
eggs and essence, bake in a slow oven till set, whip the whites to a
stiff froth, and cover the pudding. Put in the oven to brown slightly.
50. Gêlée à la Normandie.
A packet of blanc mange powder made as directed, pour into small
dariole moulds. Dissolve a packet of raspberry jelly and pour on a
meat dish, so that it will be ½ inch thick. When both are set turn the
blanc manges on to a dish, and cut out rounds of jelly with a fluted
pastry-cutter, and place on the top of the blanc manges. Chop the
remainder of jelly and garnish with it.
51. Chocolate Blanc Mange.
3-oz. cornflour.
2-oz. sugar.
Few drops of vanilla.
1¾-pints milk.
1-oz. cocoa.
Mix cornflour and cocoa in a basin, with sufficient milk to make a
smooth paste, and add rest of milk, boil till thick. Add sugar and
flavouring, and turn into wet mould to set.
52. Eastbourne Pudding.
6-oz. flour.
2-oz. sugar.
1½ teaspoonsful baking powder.
4-oz. butter or lard.
4-oz. sultanas.
1 egg.
Bake in good oven ¾ hour.
53. Summerville Plum Pudding.
1½-lbs. suet.
½-lb. candied peel.
1-lb. raisins (stoned).
1-lb. sultanas.
9 eggs.
1-lb. currants.
1 nutmeg (grated).
½-lb. bread crumbs.
1-lb. flour.
¼-pint brandy.
Boil 11 hours.
54. Victoria Pudding.
2 teacups flour.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
1 cupful castor sugar.
2 tablespoonsful butter.
1 egg.
Mix with a little milk. Beat well and bake in a greased dish until
brown. Serve with sauce.
55. Prune Gâteau.
1-lb. prunes.
3-oz. sugar.
¾-pint water.
½-oz. gelatine.
Well wash the prunes and stew in ½-pint of the water. Rub through a
sieve. Dissolve the gelatine in the remaining ¼-pint of water, and add
it to the prune pulp. Colour with a little cochineal. Put all into a
mould, and sprinkle with cocoanut when it is turned out.
56. Raspberry Pudding.
2 eggs and their weight in flour, butter and sugar, 2 tablespoonsful
raspberry jam, and ½ teaspoonful carbonate of soda. Mix all well
together and boil or steam 2 hours. Serve with sauce.
57. Rice Pudding.
Put 2 tablespoonsful rice into a dish, and fill up with milk. Add 1
tablespoonful Demerara sugar and a tiny piece of butter.
Bake in a steady oven at least 1½ hours.
58. Small Sago Pudding.
Put 2 tablespoonsful sago into a dish and just cover with cold water.
Place in the oven, and when the water has been all soaked up, take from
the oven and beat well with a fork, adding gradually sufficient milk to
nearly fill the dish. Add a tablespoonful sugar and a well-beaten egg.
Cook for about three-quarters of an hour.
59. Ground Rice Pudding.
Put into a pan two or three tablespoonsful of ground rice and as much
milk as the size of the pudding requires. Simmer for about 20 minutes
and turn into a dish. Add sugar and a beaten egg and put into the oven
for about half an hour.
60. Custard Pudding.
Beat 2 eggs well and add them to 1 pint of milk and sweeten to taste,
adding a little grated nutmeg. Place all in a dish and bake slowly for
about an hour. Be careful not to let the mixture boil, or the pudding
will not be quite so nice.
61. Stewed Pears.
8 large pears.
6 cloves.
5-oz. loaf sugar.
½-pint water.
Peel the pears, halve them, and remove the cores and leave the stalks
on. Put them into a lined saucepan with the above ingredients, and let
them simmer very gently until tender, which will be in 3 or 4 hours.
As each one is done, carefully lift out without breaking on to a glass
dish. Boil up the syrup 2 or 3 minutes, cool a little and pour over the
pears. Add a few drops of cochineal to improve the colour. Do not let
the fruit boil, but gently simmer.
62. Harrogate Pudding.
Take about a pound of any kind of red fruit and stew it (with sugar
to taste) in a pan until tender. Line a basin or mould with slices of
bread about half-an-inch thick. Strain the fruit into the mould and
cover with bread. Pour as much juice over the whole as will completely
saturate the bread. Put a heavy plate on the top for at least 2 hours.
Turn out on to a dish and pour any remaining juice round.
IV. SAUCES.
1. Apple Sauce.
Pare, core, and slice 6 apples, put them in a pan with ½-oz. butter,
1-oz. moist sugar, ¼ teaspoonful grated nutmeg, and 1 teacupful of cold
water. Boil till the apples are reduced to a pulp, beat with fork and
serve.
2. Bread Sauce.
(_A Quick Way of making it._)
Put about ½-pint milk into a pan, with some stale bread broken in, let
it boil and then beat with a fork. If not stiff enough, add more bread.
Season with pepper and salt, and serve.
3. Melted Butter.
2 tablespoonsful flour.
Butter size of walnut.
1 pint water.
Put the flour in a basin, and mix with a little cold water, then pour
boiling water on, stirring well all the time. Put all in a pan, and
boil till thick enough. If it is lumpy, strain and put in a sauce-boat,
with the butter in the middle.
4. Egg Sauce.
Make same as for Melted Butter, adding 1 or 2 hard-boiled eggs finely
chopped. If Parsley Sauce is required add parsley instead of eggs.
5. White Sauce.
2 tablespoonsful flour.
1 pint milk.
Mix the flour with a little milk, and then add the rest of milk. Put in
a pan and boil until it is the thickness required. Strain if necessary.
This is used for fowls, rabbits, &c.
6. Mint Sauce.
Chop some mint very finely, and place in a sauce-boat. Add a
dessertspoonful of sugar, and enough vinegar to cover it well. Do not
make this sauce long before it is required, as the mint will turn
yellow.
7. Onion Sauce.
Peel the onions, and boil till tender, squeeze the water from them and
chop them. Add them to white sauce (recipe given), boil all up once and
serve.
V. CAKES.
A few hints about Cakes.
Unless otherwise specified the general rule in making cakes is to cream
the butter and sugar together, then add the eggs, then flour and baking
powder (mix the baking powder with the flour) and then add fruit or
other ingredients and beat well. If fruit is to be added do not make
the cake very soft, or currants, &c., will be liable to sink, but they
are less likely to do so if previously rubbed in flour.
Always grease cake tins with lard as the cakes will be less liable to
burn than if the tins are rubbed with butter.
Do not open the oven door for at least twenty minutes after cakes are
put in, and then do it very gently as a sudden action will tend to make
a cake sink in the middle.
1. Madeira Cake.
¼-lb. butter.
3 eggs.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
½-lb. castor sugar.
½-lb. flour.
Little milk if necessary.
Put candied peel on the top when nearly done.
2. Beverleigh Buns.
¼-lb. cornflour.
2-oz. sugar.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
2-oz. butter.
2 eggs.
Bake in patty pans.
3. Queen Cakes.
¼-lb. butter.
3 eggs.
3-oz. currants.
1 teacup milk.
Almond essence.
½-lb. castor sugar.
1-lb. flour.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
Bake in patty pans in brisk oven.
4. Raspberry Sandwich.
2 eggs with their weight in sugar, butter and flour and 1 teaspoonful
baking powder. Bake in slow oven.
5. Rock Buns.
1-lb. flour
3-oz. sugar.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
¼-lb. dripping (rubbed in).
6-oz. currants.
1 egg beaten with little milk.
Mix all together, and bake in rough lumps on floured baking sheet.
6. Cornflour Cake.
¼-lb. butter.
1 egg.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
½-lb. castor sugar.
½-lb. cornflour.
Lemon essence.
Bake in small dripping tin.
7. Oatmeal Buns.
6-oz. coarse oatmeal.
3-ozs. lard or butter (rubbed in).
4-oz. sugar.
Pinch of salt.
½-lb. flour.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
1 egg.
Little milk.
Bake either in lumps on sheet or in patty pans.
8. Lemon Sandwich Cakes.
Weight of 1 egg in flour, butter, castor sugar, and ground rice. 1
teaspoonful baking powder. Beat all together, and spread on two greased
plates. Bake ten minutes, and spread lemon curd between.
9. Yorkshire Parkin.
1-lb. coarse oatmeal.
½-lb. lard or dripping.
½-lb. brown sugar.
2 teaspoonsful mixed spices.
Juice of 1 lemon.
1-lb. flour.
1-lb. treacle.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
2 teaspoonsful ginger.
3 eggs and a little milk.
Bake in dripping tin in slow oven.
10. Drummond Cake.
2-oz. butter.
6-oz. castor sugar.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
½-lb. currants.
½-oz. carraway seeds.
2-oz. lard.
¾-lb. flour.
2-oz. peel.
1 teaspoonful ginger.
3 eggs and a little milk.
Bake in moderate oven.
11. Gingerbread.
10-oz. flour.
¼-lb. brown sugar.
1-oz. candied peel.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
2-oz. butter (rubbed in).
¼-lb. treacle.
1-oz. ground ginger.
1 egg.
Little milk.
Bake in dripping tin, and cut in squares when cold.
12. Ginger Nuts.
1-lb. flour.
¼-lb. treacle.
¼-lb. butter.
½-oz. ginger.
Melt the butter in a pan, add the treacle, and when quite hot mix with
a wooden spoon to the flour and ginger.
Roll between the hands into nuts, and bake on greased tin for 20
minutes.
13. Victoria Roll.
2 eggs.
2-oz. flour.
3-oz. castor sugar.
½ teaspoonful baking powder.
Butter a tin and pour in the mixture, and bake 10 minutes in a quick
oven. Quickly spread with jam, roll up, and sprinkle with castor sugar.
14. Yorkshire Cake.
1 egg and its weight in flour, sugar, butter, and ground rice. 1
teaspoonful baking powder and a little milk. Spread on two greased
plates and bake. Spread jam on one and press the other on the top.
15. Sally Lunn Teacakes (No. 1).
1¾-lb. flour
¼-lb. butter or lard.
2 teacupsful castor sugar.
1d. yeast.
Mix well with warm milk to a stiff batter, then beat with the hand for
20 minutes. Place in tins, and allow them to rise before putting in the
oven.
16. Summerville Cakes.
3-oz. butter.
3 eggs.
¼-lb. flour.
¼ teaspoonful baking powder.
3-oz. sugar.
¼-lb. grated chocolate.
6 drops essence of vanilla.
Tablespoonful of milk.
Bake in small patty pans.
17. Soda Cake.
¼-lb. butter or dripping.
3 eggs.
½-lb. currants.
1 teacupful of milk.
½-lb. moist sugar.
1-lb. flour.
1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda.
Bake in a moderate oven about 1 hour.
18. Brunswick Cakes.
¼-lb. butter.
1 egg.
¼-lb. currants.
2-oz. mixed peel.
Grated rind of 1 lemon.
2-oz. sugar.
½-lb. flour.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
Add a little milk, but the mixture should be stiff. Drop on to a baking
sheet in pieces the size of a walnut.
19. Jordan Cakes.
1-oz. butter.
1 egg.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
1 teacupful sugar.
1 teacupful flour.
Pinch of salt.
Mix and bake at once in a moderate oven. Cut in two when cold and
spread with jam.
20. Lunch Cake.
1-lb. flour.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
3 eggs.
1-oz. carraway seeds.
Little milk.
¼-lb. dripping (rubbed in).
1 teacupful sugar.
1 cup of milk.
¼-lb. currants.
Bake 1½ hours.
21. Plain Plum Cake.
¼-lb. butter.
3 eggs.
½-lb. currants.
½-pint milk.
½-lb. sugar.
¾-lb. flour.
2-oz. candied peel.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
Cream the butter, add the sugar and eggs, then rest of ingredients.
Bake in moderate oven.
22. Rice Buns.
½-lb. butter.
2 eggs.
½-lb. ground rice.
1-oz. lemon peel.
½-lb. castor sugar.
½-lb. flour.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
Mix with milk.
Bake in patty pans.
23. Raspberry Buns.
6-oz. flour.
4-oz. butter (rubbed in).
Yolk of 1 egg.
6-oz. ground rice.
8-oz. granulated sugar.
Little milk.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
Make into a stiff paste, and roll in the hands to size of walnuts. Make
a hole in the middle, put in a little jam and close up. Bake in slow
oven.
24. Walnut Cake.