Arhiva pentru "Bread, Biscuits and Cakes"
Cornmeal Bread
1 1/2 cups Italian cornmeal 1 cup all purpose flour 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 2 eggs 6 tbsp butter, melted and cooled 8 tbsp shortening, melted and cooled 1/3 cup sugar 1 1/2 cups milk Preheat the oven at 400 Deg F. Sift in a bowl the cornmeal, flour, sugar, salt and [...]
PEPPERMINT PINA COLADA (2ND)
ice \ rocks or frozen (flavors same as 1st) Rum , 1 oz Peppermint Candy , 1 Piña Colada Mix, 1/2 Pineapple Juice, 1/2
Polkas or Halfpenny Sponges
Put 2 1/2 lbs. of good flour on the table, make a bay, put in 5 eggs, l 1/2 lb. of castor sugar, and 1 oz. voil; beat eggs, sugar, and ammonia with your hand for twelve or fifteen minutes, add a little churned milk, take in your flour and beat all well together with [...]
Halfpenny lunch Cake
2 lbs. of flour, 4 ozs. of lard, 8 ozs. of sugar, 8 ozs. of currants, 1 oz. of soda, 1 oz. of cream of tartar; dough with churned milk and mix as for queens. Have some square sponge cake tins ready greased, take a spoon and three-parts fill them; wash with egg on top, [...]
Common Halfpenny Queen Cake
3 lbs. of flour, add 1 oz. of cream of tartar, 1 oz. of soda; mix; rub in 12 ozs. of lard, make a bay, put in 24 ozs. of castor sugar, essence of lemon; dough with churned milk; dough rather soft. Have some fluted tins ready greased, take a spoon and three-parts fill your [...]
Nonpareil Biscuits
Rub 6 ozs. of lard in 5 lbs. of flour, make a bay, put in 2 1/2 lbs. of moist sugar, 2 ozs. of ammonia; dough with milk; make into a dough, but do not work it too much. Cut out the same size and thickness as for brandy snaps; wash the top with milk; [...]
Brandy Snaps
Rub 1 lb. of lard in 4 lbs. of flour, put 4 lbs. of moist sugar on it and mix together; make a bay, put in 4 lbs. of syrup and about half a teaspoonful of essence of lemon. Make all into dough, pin it out, cut with a small round cutter, about the thickness [...]
Large Square Penny Albert Cake
Rub 6 ozs. of lard in 6 lbs. of flour, then add 4 ozs. of cream of tartar and 2 ozs. of soda. Mix all together and make a bay. Put in the bay 2 lbs. of sugar and 3 lbs. of currants, and dough with churned milk, a little softer than for plum cake [...]
Halfpenny Scotch Cakes
3 1/2 lbs. of flour, 12 ozs. of lard, 12 ozs. of sugar, 1/4 oz. vol, and a little milk, as much as will dissolve the volatile salts and sugar. Mix as above, but well rub the dough; make it nice and easy to work off. Pin out a sheet about 1/4 of an inch [...]
Sugar or White Spice Biscuits
7 lbs. of good fine flour, 12 ozs. of lard, 3 lbs. of moist sugar, 4 ozs. of ammonia, churned milk to dough; mix as above, but do not work the mixture too much. Take about 4 lbs. of the dough, work it into a square or round shape, pin it out a little thicker [...]
Currant or Milk Scones
6 lbs. of flour, 6 ozs. of lard, 6 ozs. of sugar, 3 ozs. of cream of tartar, 1 1/2 oz. soda, 1 lb. of currants, 1 oz. of salt; buttermilk to dough. Mix as above. Weigh off at 11 ozs. for 2d., mould, pin out and cut in four; put on flat clean tins; [...]
Soda Cakes or Scones
12 lbs. of flour, 6 ozs. of cream of tartar, 3 ozs. of carbonate of soda, 12 ozs. of lard, 2 ozs. of salt. Dough up with churned milk, mix the tartar and soda with the flour, rub the lard in the flour, make a bay, add the salt, and make into a nice dough [...]
