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

3 ounces flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 ounce chopped candied orange peel, ½ teaspoon extract cinnamon, pinch cloves, grated rind ½ lemon. Bake in small patty-pans in moderate oven. =Buttercups.=—2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, yolks 9 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, ¾ cup milk, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Bake in patty-pans, ice with boiled icing, tinted yellow. =Jumbles.=—1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Rub together the butter and sugar; add the beaten eggs, and flour sifted with the powder; flour the board, roll out the dough rather thin, cut with jumble-cutter, or any you may have; roll in sugar, lay out on greased tin (fig. XIII); bake in fairly hot oven 10 minutes. =Peanut Jumbles.=—1½ cups butter, 2 cups sugar, 6 eggs, 1½ pints flour, ½ cup corn-starch, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon extract lemon, ½ cup chopped peanuts, mixed with ½ cup granulated sugar. Rub the butter and sugar smooth; add the beaten eggs, the flour, corn-starch, and powder, sifted together, and the extract; flour the board, roll out the dough rather thin, cut out with biscuit-cutter, roll in the chopped peanuts and sugar, lay on greased baking-tin (fig. XIII); bake in rather hot oven 8 to 10 minutes. =Little Spice Cakes.=—1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 5 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 tablespoon black coffee, ¼ teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cocoa, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon, 1 teaspoon extract nutmeg, 2 ounces corn-starch, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix as for cakes with butter, and bake in patty-pans in a hot oven. =Little Chocolate Cakes.=—2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, ½ cup water, 1½ cups flour, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons grated chocolate melted over hot water, 1 teaspoon extract vanilla. Put together as for cake with butter; bake in patty-pans in moderate oven. =Scotch Cakes.=—1 pound flour, ½ pound butter, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ⅔ cup granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon extract vanilla. Mix flour and baking powder. Rub in butter