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

as for biscuits. Work in the sugar and flavoring. This gives a rather crumbly dough. Work with hands to make it adhere, pat out in cakes, sprinkle with caraway-seed. Bake in moderate oven. Very rich. =Spencer Cakes.=—2 cups sugar, 8 eggs, 1½ pints flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons coriander-seed, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Beat eggs and sugar together, until they get thick and white; add flour sifted with powder, the seed, and extract; mix into rather thick sponge; drop in spoonfuls on greased tin (fig. XIV), bake in hot oven 5 or 6 minutes. =Rice Cakes.=-½ cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1½ cups rice flour, 1½ cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ½ cup cream, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together 10 minutes; add the butter, melted; sift together flour, rice flour, and the powder, which add to the eggs, etc., with the cream and the extract; mix into a thin batter, and bake in patty-pans, well greased, in a hot oven, 10 minutes. =Delicious Little Cakes= can be made by making a rich jumble-paste—rolling out in any desired shape; cut some paste in thick, narrow strips and lay around your cakes so as to form a deep, cup-like edge; place on a well-buttered tin and bake. When done, fill with iced fruit, prepared as follows: Take rich, ripe peaches (canned ones will do if fine and well drained from all juice), cut in halves; plums, strawberries, pineapples cut in squares or small triangles, or any other available fruit, and dip in the white of an egg that has been very slightly beaten, and then in pulverized sugar, and lay in the center of your cakes. =Cinnamon Cakes.=—Whites 4 eggs, ½ cup sugar, 1 cup flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon. Mix as for cakes without butter, and bake in patty-pans in a quick oven. Ice with water icing flavored with cinnamon extract. =Cigarettes.=—Mix and sift 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons sugar, ½ teaspoon salt. Rub in 2