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

smooth over with a knife, and prick with fork. Bake in a slow oven 1 hour. Cut into shapes whilst hot in the tin. FRUIT CAKE. 2 breakfastcups flour ½ lb. butter ½ lb. sugar 1 teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder 8 eggs 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 lb. currants 4 ozs. almonds ½ lb. mixed peel MODE.—Beat butter to a cream, add sugar gradually, then white of eggs (beaten 10 minutes), then yolks (beaten 10 minutes), then flour and other ingredients. Bake 2½ hours moderate oven. RICE CAKES. 1 cup flour ½ cup ground rice ¼ lb. sugar 3 ozs. butter 1 egg ½ cup milk 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder A pinch of salt Cream butter and sugar, sift dry ingredients together, whisk the egg well, and mix all thoroughly. Add flavouring, and a few currants if liked. Bake in patty pans in moderate oven about 10 minutes. SUNBEAM CAKE. ½ lb. sugar ½ lb. butter ½ lb. sultanas ¼ lb. peel ¾ lb. flour 6 eggs 1 small teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder A few almonds and flavouring MODE.—Whip butter and sugar to a cream, beat in eggs one by one, then add flour and baking powder, fruit, peel, almonds, and flavouring. Bake in moderate oven 2 hours. PANCAKES. 2 breakfastcups flour 2 teaspoonfuls Edmonds’ Prize Baking Powder Pinch of salt Mix well in dry state, add two eggs, well beaten, and enough milk to make thin batter. Fry with lard or butter. GRATED NUT CAKES. 1½ breakfastcups flour ¼ lb. desiccated cocoanut (or almonds) 6 tablespoonfuls sugar 4 ozs. butter ½ teacup milk 1 dessertspoonful Edmonds’ Egg Powder Mix cocoanut with the flour, sugar, and Egg Powder. Soften the butter a little, then rub it lightly into the other ingredients, moisten the whole with the milk slightly warmed, and bake in moderate quick oven in buttered patty pans. AFTERNOON TEA CAKES. 1 breakfastcup flour 2 heaped dessertspoonfuls sugar 3 ozs. butter (or 3 tablespoonfuls) 1 egg (well beaten) and some milk 1 teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder Jam (raspberry preferred) Rub butter into flour, then add sugar and Edmonds’