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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17651, 11 December 1920, Page 4 (Supplement)

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CAKES FOR CHRISTMAS. j The following recipes will be found useful fur cakes, which can be made and | kepi t:i: •'.'■■:■ Christmas season; when 'hey | ~. ,■ I'.keh to be needed: — Spice Cake —Required : Flour, three- I i;;iaricia of a pound; butter, boz. ; [ -.Id.'.. --;-iiip. one. teaspoonful ; mar- I ,v,-Jn:\c. ■"•'. ■ i,.b'.efj>..viiiu!s: eggs, two; ! i.i K ; ~'; .'i!' : randied-peel, 2oz. ; mixed j ) .. loved >")'!• e. three level teaspoonfuls; j • •',.,!.,.;■ ...i soda, hail a level teaspoon- ! : i ;m. r-utzar. about one tablespoonful. j (, : ,.-,5e ~ ••ftp pudding-Un. Warm the . 1..i-ter k."'-i;tly, and add the syrup and j n;,-ii walade Stir over a slow heat, till i it.,: ~i ..,! mixed. Well mix the flour, ~■• p.'H pre!, spice and soda. lie careft,: :■• -it- that i:ie latter is free from the j -ma ■:-; ',>••;■ i . stir in the syrup, etc., i a:;.-: .:. •:!!'_- i a little; add and beat in i i'if 'vi'.k .in.; well-beaten eggs. Mix j i!e !.'ii_-l.'y. turn into the tin. and bake i *'<■..• : v ia- ih. ut flip '•" one hour and a- j !'., : When cold cut into blocks. i Plain Fruit (Jake.--.lngredients: One i p-end flour, sail. ill), butter, c> or '4 ; *_■.... j::v da:k sugar, lib. raisins, 007.. j ■ ■ .i: ed peel >cut up), 1 tea spoonful-muted -pue, i teaspoonful carbonate soda, i | rali'espc-Mifiil hot water, milk if necessary. I •■)■ \ •••;! Hull Hour an-! sail through a! r-'-v,-. Pin 111 fat. and rub in with tips ! id hn-:eis, uuiil hke bread crumbs. Add j sugar, fruit, and peel and spice; mix I well. P. at eggs well, and dissolve soda ! in '.eater Mis all well together, adding I milk to make a dough, fairly stiff. I'ut j in! . a wcl!-grea«ed or lined tin. Bake 1 tw<-> hn«r? ioven hut at. rir.tt, then moder- : ate 1 . Cool in .1 wire, tray and sieve, and j pack awav in an air-tight tin. ' Rich Pound Cake.Eight eggs, %\b. of ] butter, lib. of sugar, lib. c-f flour, lib. of currants, 1 tablespoonful of orange juice, iih. I'resh or dried cherries. Alb. sultanas, ilb. mixed peel, 2oz. of angelica, grated r.i'd of one large orange, gib. of almonds, i tea-spoonful carbonate soda.. Bake about three hours in a moderate even. . Peel Cake.—Four eggs, 1 teacup butter, 1 breakfastcup flour, J a teacup candied, peel, .1 teacup sugar. 1 teaspoon baking -powder, - essence' lemon half a- teaspoon. - -Bake- in a-shallow-tin for-half-an-hour and tee. Brown Cake.—Two eggs, ' •' "btrtcer, lib: flour. 1 teaspoon ground gin-. .* ger. 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 tea- ... spoon mixed spice, ilb. brown sugar, 1 ~;, teacup rrggcjie, J tgarjup £reai»;(or another *£ |lh. bufetprt. 1 etrjj*stiltarras, l~cup raisins,-- "■ 1 teaspoon soda. Bake" for. hours .in -•► moderate oven. — Shortbread.—lngredients: lib. flour, Jib. butter, 4.1b- white sugar, 1 tablespoon.'"l fa! ground rice. Method: Place butter .5! and sugar on a- board or slab, and work "X one into the other with the ball : of the _- hand; "until smooth: • Rave ready the flour. *• and rice sieved; and. s^art 'working'it in, '-■' a little* '""kneading very well, * until all flour is worked in ; this requires ~; practice. When all is smooth, form into X a square or round' cake, pinch edges, and -; decorate with candied peel. Place on a ■; tin and, bake. in a- moderate oven three- * quarters of ah' hour to one "Sour. Cool * on a tiny-then on-a sieve, wrap'; in paper, T and put" in an air-tight, tin. " "Will keep a 1 long'time. . 1. ' " . :§, Chocolate Ingredients: 4oz. but-, X'' ter, 6oz. white sugar, Boz. sifted flour, i % teaspoonfut-bakitigs 1 powdery* 'vanilla tiav- .% curing, 3 Veggs, |itae:',miik, 6oz. grated v_ chocolate,, half-teaspocntful ground:, cinnamon. MeElfcTd': 'Cream"rmtter and sugar. .:'. Add eggs,,,weir beat-en, ; and mix thor- ; - iiiighly. ■• "Put;! chocolate -and-..about halfT' teaeupl'ur milk in a" saucepan, and stir I; over gentle heat until chocolate is r.d:s----:g solved. Add to butter mixture, stir and add flour, baking powder spice and es- -; sence beat well. - "'.l Pour 1 into': a' well-'. £■ greased tin and bake about I£., hours,;, or. * until quite firm*-- "Turn out' carefully, and ** when quite; cold : ice. N 0 of but--3 ter may,be used if/eake'is to be?kept; pver-S ■:.'; two weeks. This' cafe: burns easily :; and £ must be covered "with $. a - paper." when' ,g risen. ■■■•; ; r ■ x- ,-. >' - *■■ ■ .