Part 26 (1/2)

sultanas, 4 ozs. currants or candied peel, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1/2 teaspoonful mixed spice. Cream sugar and b.u.t.ter. Add flour, fruit, spice, and baking powder. Mix with just enough water to moisten. Bake in good steady oven for about an hour.

Tweedmont Sultana Cake.

1/2 lb. b.u.t.ter or ”Nutter,” 3/4 lb. flour, 1/2 lb. soft sugar, 6 eggs, 1 lb. sultanas. Beat b.u.t.ter or ”Nutter” to a cream, add the sugar, and beat for twenty minutes longer. Add two eggs, and beat again till thoroughly mixed, adding a little flour to prevent curdling, and repeat till all the eggs are in. Then sift in the flour, and add the sultanas cleaned and rubbed with flour. Mix lightly and pour into well greased cake tin. Bake in slow oven 1-1/2 hours.

Murlaggan Cake (Steamed).

1 cup whole-wheat meal, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoonful ground ginger, 1 teaspoonful mixed spice, 1 cup Sultanas or stoned raisins, 2 tablespoons ”Nutter,” 1/2 teaspoonful baking soda, 2 tablespoonfuls syrup or treacle, or 1 of each; 1 egg, a very little sour milk. Rub ”Nutter” or b.u.t.ter into flour, mix all dry things. Beat up egg, and add, with just enough sour or b.u.t.ter-milk to mix. Turn into greased pudding-bowl, and steam for about 2 hours. This should be a very light, wholesome cake, and is especially useful when one has not an oven. It may be varied to advantage, as by using Banana flour in place of the other, chopped dates or fruitarian cake in place of raisins, &c. A handy holiday cake.

Swiss Roll.

4 ozs. sifted sugar, 2 eggs, 4 ozs. Pattinson's banana cake flour, some jam, 1/2 teaspoonful Pattinson's baking powder or small teaspoonful home-made baking powder, 2 tablespoonfuls milk or orange juice. Put sugar and eggs in a basin, and switch up with ”Gourmet” pudding spoon or a couple of forks for fifteen minutes. Add the milk and beat again, then the flour, previously mixed with the baking powder and sifted in. Beat all very thoroughly. Grease well a flat baking-tin, cover with greased paper, and pour in the mixture. Bake for not more than 5 minutes in very hot oven.

Turn out on a paper sprinkled with sifted sugar, remove the greased paper, spread with jam or marmalade, and roll up very quickly.

Sponge Sandwich.

Prepare mixture exactly as above. Put half in well-greased sandwich tin, colour the other half pink with a few drops of carmine, and put into a second tin. Bake as before, turn out on a cloth or sieve. Spread the under side of one with either jam, marmalade, chocolate mixture, &c., and put the other one on top. Dust over with sugar, or coat with a thin icing. For this Mapleton's Cocoanut Cream is very good.

Banana Buns.

1/2 lb. Pattinson's banana flour, 1-1/2 ozs. ”Nutter,” 1/2 teaspoonful baking powder, 2 ozs. sugar, 1 egg, a little milk. Mix dry ingredients, rub in the ”Nutter.” Beat up egg, and add with a very little milk to make a rather firm dough. Divide into small pieces, flour the hands, and roll into b.a.l.l.s. Have a teaspoonful sugar dissolved in a few drops of hot milk on a saucer. Dip in each bun, and place with sugared side uppermost on greased tin or oven plate. Bake for about 10 minutes in rather hot oven.

Banana Flour Scones.

1 lb. banana flour, 2 ozs. b.u.t.ter or ”Nutter,” 2 ozs. sugar, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, milk. Mix flour--the banana flour sold by the lb. is best--sugar, and baking powder. Rub in b.u.t.ter, make into a light dough with milk. Cut into small scones, and bake in good oven about 15 minutes.

These scones are exceedingly good, and quite different from those made with ordinary flour. They may be varied by adding a few Sultanas or a beaten egg.

Manhu Crisps.

1 lb. Manhu whole-wheat flour, 1 oz. cocoanut b.u.t.ter, pinch salt. Rub b.u.t.ter into flour, and make into a dough with as little water as possible; then run twice or three times through an ordinary mincer. Form into twelve or more rolls or twists with as little handling as possible, and bake in hot oven for ten to fifteen minutes.

Manhu Scones.

1 lb. Manhu Flour, 1/2 teaspoonful carb. soda (not heaped), sour milk or b.u.t.ter milk to make a soft dough. Bake on a girdle if possible.

Hovis Scones.

1 lb. Hovis Flour, 1 oz. nut b.u.t.ter, pinch salt, 1 tablespoonful treacle, 1/2 teaspoonful carb. soda, b.u.t.ter milk or sour milk. Mix dry things, rub in b.u.t.ter, add treacle and enough sour milk to make a fairly soft dough.

Mix thoroughly and quickly. Roll out not too thin, and bake in good oven about 15 minutes. The treacle may be omitted.