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

cut into shapes and bake. MADEIRA CAKE. 3 eggs, their weight in butter and sugar The weight of 4 eggs in flour 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder Juice of one small lemon Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one by one, beat well, add lemon juice, flour, and baking powder. Bake in buttered cake tin in moderate oven for about one hour. Ice the top if desired. DATE CAKE. ½ lb. butter ½ lb. sugar 6 eggs ½ lb. dates 1½ breakfastcups flour 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs 2 at a time; beat well, add flour, powder, and fruit. Bake about 1½ hours. PYRAMIDS. 1 breakfastcup flour 2 teaspoonfuls Edmonds’ Baking Powder 1 teaspoonful cornflour (or potato flour) ¼ lb. sugar ¼ lb. butter 4 eggs Flavouring Beat butter and sugar to a cream, well whisk the eggs, sift dry ingredients together, make a hole in centre of flour, in which put butter and eggs, mix thoroughly but lightly; add flavouring liked, and bake in small patty pans in hot oven for about 10 minutes. PICNIC DAINTIES. 1½ breakfastcups flour 3 tablespoonfuls butter 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 dessertspoonful Edmonds’ Egg Powder Milk to mix Rub butter into flour, then stir in sugar, egg powder and sufficient milk to make firm dough. Roll and cut into rounds, place one teaspoonful of raspberry jam in the centre; wet the edges and press them together. Place on cold greased oven shelf. Bake 12 minutes. SEED CAKE. ½ lb. butter ½ lb. sugar 6 eggs 2 cups flour 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder Caraway seed, lemon peel Beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add the eggs, beating in one by one with the hand; lastly, add flour and baking powder, mixed together, with seeds and lemon peel as desired. GINGER CAKE. 2 breakfastcups flour 1 teacup sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder 1 teacup golden syrup 1 teacup butter 1 teacup milk 2 eggs 2 dessertspoonfuls ground ginger 1 teaspoonful cinnamon ½ teaspoonful spice Mix dry ingredients, add eggs