Modern cookery for private families

546 White Cake 546 A good Sponge Cake 547 A smaller Sponge Cake (_very 547 good_) Fine Venetian Cake or Cakes 547 A good Madeira Cake 548 A _Solimemne_ (a rich French 549 breakfast cake, or Sally Lunn) Banbury Cakes 549 _Meringues_ 550 Italian _Meringues_ 551 Thick, light Gingerbread 551 Acton Gingerbread 552 Cheap and very good Ginger 552 Oven-cake or Cakes Good common Gingerbread 553 Richer Gingerbread 553 Cocoa-nut Gingerbread 553 (_original receipts_) Delicious Cream Cake and Sweet 554 Rusks A good light Luncheon-cake and 554 Brawn Brack A very cheap Luncheon-biscuit, 555 or Nursery-cake Isle of Wight Dough-nuts 556 Queen Cakes 556 Jumbles 556 A good Soda Cake 556 Good Scottish Short-bread 557 A _Galette_ 557 Small Sugar Cakes of various 558 kinds Fleed, or Flead Cakes 558 Light Buns of different kinds 559 Exeter Buns 559 Threadneedle-street Biscuits 560 Plain Dessert Biscuits and 560 Ginger Biscuits Good Captain’s Biscuits 560 The Colonel’s Biscuits 561 Aunt Charlotte’s Biscuits 561 Excellent Soda Buns 561 CHAPTER XXVII. CONFECTIONARY. Page To clarify Sugar 562 To boil Sugar from Syrup to 563 Candy, or to Caramel Caramel (_the quickest way_) 563 Barley-sugar 564 Nougat 564 Ginger-candy 565 Orange-flower Candy 565 Orange-flower Candy (_another 566 receipt_) Cocoa-nut Candy 566 Everton Toffee 567 Chocolate Drops 567 Chocolate Almonds 568 Seville Orange Paste 568 CHAPTER XXVIII. DESSERT DISHES. Page Dessert Dishes 569 Pearled Fruit, or Fruit _en 570 Chemise_ Salad of mixed Summer Fruits 570 Peach Salad 570 Orange Salad 571 Tangerine Oranges 571 Peaches in Brandy (_Rotterdam 571 receipt_) Brandied Morella Cherries 571 Baked Compôte of Apples (_our 572 little lady’s receipt_) Dried Norfolk Biffins 572 Normandy Pippins 572 Stewed _Pruneaux de Tours_, or 573 Tours dried Plums To bake Pears 573 Stewed Pears 573 Boiled Chestnuts 574 Roasted Chestnuts 574 Almond Shamrocks (_very good 574 and very pretty_) Small Sugar Soufflés 575 Ices 575 CHAPTER XXIX. SYRUPS, LIQUEURS, ETC. Page Strawberry Vinegar, of 577 delicious flavour Very fine Raspberry Vinegar 578 Fine Currant Syrup, or _Sirop 579 de Groseilles_ Cherry Brandy (_Tappington 579 Everard receipt_) Oxford Punch 580 Oxford receipt for Bishop 580