HAVE YOUR CAKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 2

HAVE YOUR CAKE

AND EAT IT TOO. RECIPES THAT WILL PLEASE. Here are some cake recipes which should please everybody:— Small Butter Cakes. Cream 4oz butter well, gradually add soz castor sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add 1 large or 2 small eggs and.beat well. Sift soz plain flour with 1 level teaspoon baking powder and a pinch salt. Add it alternately to butter mixture with gill milk or orange juice. Bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes in small patty-pans, previously greased and lightly floured. When quite cold, ice and decorate as required. The finely-grated rind of an orange or lemon may be used as a flavouring. Sand Cake. Beat 6oz of butter well, gradually add 6oz of castor sugar and beat until light and white. Add 2 eggs, one at a time, beating well. Sift Boz of cornflour and loz plain flour and carefully fold into mixture. Pour in a ring mould, well greased and lightly floured. Bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. When cold, ice with fondant icing and decorate with crystallised cherries. Orange Cake. Beat 4 egg-yolks with 3oz castor sugar until stiff, but not dry. gradually add loz sugar and beat until it will hold up in peaks. Add this to egg-yolk mixture. Sift and fold in 2oz cornflour, 2oz plain flour, a pinch salt, and add the grated rind of 1 orange. Add 4oz melted butter and fold into mixture. Bake in 2 sandwich tins, previously well greased and lightly floured, in a moderate oven for about 25 minuteWhen quite cold join together with orange filling and ice with orange icing.

Old Fashioned Ginger Cake. Cream 4oz butter well, gradually add 4oz sugar, and beat until light and fluffy. Add 3 egg-yolks, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added. Add a few drops lemon essence. Sift together 6oz plain flour. 1 level teaspoon baking powder, a pinch baking soda, and !oz ground ginger. Add it alternately to butter mixture with J gill milk. Put mixture in a well-lined cake tin brush over lightly with water or milk, sprinkle with castor sugar, and bake for about 45 minutes in a moderate oven. Apple Loaf Caka. To A level cup butter or good margarine, creamed, add 1 level cup castor sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add the yolks of 2 well-beaten eggs and a few drops lemon essence. Sift 1 level cup flour with A level cup cornflour, 3 level teaspoons baking powder, and a pinch of salt. Put 2 tablespoons all bran through a mincer with 2 tablespoons walnuts. Add 2 tablespoons grated apple to butter mixture, then add all bran and walnuts. Now add dry ingredients alternately with A cup top milk. Lastly fold in the white of the 2 eggs and bake in a wellgreased and lightly-floured loaf pan for about 45 minutes. .