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

and so on. One large breakfastcup of flour equals half pound. TO YOUNG PEOPLE. To make sure that cakes are baked enough, stick a clean bright skewer, or straw through it; if it comes out clean and free from the cake mixture it is done, if otherwise, it requires longer cooking. Careful practice will bring you success. COFFEE CAKE. ¼ lb. butter (or dripping) ¼ lb. sugar ½ cup Golden Syrup 1 large cup of strong coffee 1 lb. flour (or 2 breakfastcups) 2 heaped teaspoonfuls Edmonds’ Baking Powder 1 teaspoonful ground ginger A few raisins and peel A little spice or nutmeg Cream butter and sugar, add syrup warmed and mixed with the coffee, together with sifted flour, add spices to creamed butter, add raisins and peel, then beat in baking powder; bake in moderate oven about 2 hours. BATH BUNS. ½ cupful butter 1 cupful sugar 3 eggs ½ cupful lemon peel (cut up) 3 breakfastcups flour 3 teaspoons Edmonds’ Baking Powder Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs, and beat few minutes longer, add other ingredients, and mix into moderate paste with milk. Place on cold oven shelf (greased), and bake about 12 or 15 minutes in hot oven. =Special.=—If Edmonds’ Baking Powder should appear lumpy in tin, it will easily powder up again (with back of spoon) before using in cooking. ABOUT CAKE MIXING. Always cream together the butter and sugar in a basin, before commencing to add the eggs already beaten; this will add success to your cakes. COCOANUT DELICACIES. ½ breakfastcup flour (or ¼ lb.) ½ breakfastcup cocoanut (or ¼ lb.) desiccated 3 ozs. butter (or 3 tablespoonfuls) 2 heaped dessertspoonfuls sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder Rub butter into flour, add other dry ingredients, and mix, then add egg beaten, this should make stiff dough (if not add very little milk, as dough must be stiff). Place on cold greased oven shelf in small lots. Bake in hot oven from 10 to 12 minutes. A RIDDLE For the young generations and new arrivals in the Dominion. WHY IS