The Sure to Rise Cookery Book: Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints

spoonfuls piled high on the baking tray. ELSIE’S FINGERS. ¼ lb. butter 3 ozs. sugar 2 small cups flour 1½ teaspoonfuls Baking Powder (Edmonds’) 1 egg Beat butter and sugar, add egg and flour mixed with baking powder, roll small pieces between the hands, dip in sugar, and put on cold tray; bake in moderate oven till slightly brown. PIKELETS. 1 breakfastcup flour 1 dessertspoonful sugar 1 egg (well beaten) 1 teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder ¾ breakfastcup milk 1 oz. butter Mix flour, sugar, and Edmonds’ Baking Powder together, then mix egg and milk, make a well in centre of dry ingredients, and mix to a smooth paste with milk. Cook in small lots on hot greased girdle. [Illustration] RENE’S KISSES. ½ lb. cornflour ½ lb. butter ½ lb. sugar ½ lb. flour 4 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls Edmonds’ Baking Powder Cream butter and sugar, add eggs beaten and flavouring, mix baking powder, flour, and cornflour, and add to mixture; mix until quite light, drop in teaspoon lots on cold oven shelf, bake in quick oven; when cold, fasten together with jam. SPONGE SANDWICH. 3 eggs 1 cup sugar (small) 1 cup flour (small) ½ teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder Beat eggs and sugar well, then add flour and baking powder mixed; bake in hot oven in sandwich tins. SPONGE ROLL. 1 cup flour 1 tea cup sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder 2 tablespoons cold water METHOD.—Beat eggs and sugar till stiff and frothy, sift flour and baking powder, add water to eggs and sugar, then stir in the sifted flour and baking powder lightly and quickly, pour into greased tin, and bake in hot oven from 8 to 10 minutes. This recipe will also serve for a Jam Sandwich. CHRISTMAS CAKE. 1 lb. butter 1 lb. currants 1 lb. raisins 1 lb. sultanas ¼ lb. mixed peel ¼ lb. almonds 4 breakfastcups flour 2 breakfastcups sugar 10 eggs 1 heaped teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder Wine glass brandy Beat butter to a cream, add sugar, then eggs one by one (unbeaten); mix baking powder with flour, and put in,