The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

pounds currants, 1 pound raisins, ½ pound citron, 1 ounce mace, 1 ounce cinnamon, 4 nutmegs, 1 ounce cloves, 8 eggs, wine-glass brandy, ½ ounce extract rose. =Wine Cake.=—1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 gill wine, 3 eggs. Rub butter and sugar to light cream, add eggs, 1 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition; add flour sifted with powder, and wine; mix into medium, firm batter; bake in shallow square cake-pan (fig. XIII), in moderate oven, 40 minutes; when taken from oven carefully ice with transparent icing. [Illustration: (Decorative Design)] Cookies and Small Cakes =Royal Cookies.=—1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 5 eggs, 1½ pints flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup milk. Mix butter, sugar, and eggs smooth; add flour sifted with powder, and milk; mix into dough, soft enough to handle conveniently; flour the board, roll out dough, thin; cut out with biscuit-cutter; lay on greased baking-tin, bake in hot oven 5 or 6 minutes. =Soft Cookies.=—1 cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, just enough flour to roll out to a soft dough. Sprinkle with sugar before rolling, cut in rounds, bake in quick oven. =Cocoanut Cookies.=—1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup grated cocoanut, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, flour to roll out. Bake pale brown. =Plain Cookies.=-½ cup butter, 1½ cups sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg, 1 cup flour sifted with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, sufficient flour added to make a soft dough. Roll out, cut into cookies, and bake pale brown in moderate oven. =Anise-seed Cakes.=—8 eggs, 1 pound sugar, 1 scant pound flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, pinch salt, 1 tablespoon anise-seed. Beat eggs and sugar together 30 minutes, then add anise, flour mixed with powder, and roll out thin. Cut in fancy shapes and bake on flat tins in quick oven. =Albert Cakes.=—Yolks 6 eggs, white 1 egg, 5 ounces sugar, 5½ ounces blanched and chopped almonds,