Vary Your Cake Fillings

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 11 January 1935, Page 47

Vary Your Cake Fillings

, OU can make all varieties of sandwich cake simply by using different filings. And you can make your cakes even more interesting by baking in three shallow layers so that you have two lots of filling. Toasted Walnut Boot, HOP a gill and a half of ‘shelled walnuts and brown slightly in the oven. Put in a double -boiler with three ounces of ‘brown. sugar, . three Fr ounces of butter, three lightly-beaten egg yolks and a teaspoonful of water. \ Stir constantly until thickened. — Custard -Cream IFT together an ounce and a’ half of flour, five ounces of castor sugar, and a pinch of salt, and work in two beaten eggs. Pour on a pint.of . scalded. milk, return to double boiler and stir until thick. Flavour with vanilla, almond or coffee. Lady Baltimore ($00K together ten ounces of castor sugar, a tablespoonful of golden syrup and a gill of water, until it forms a sort of ball when tested’ in cold water. Beat two egg-whites stiffly and pour on the sugar mixture in a ‘thin , stream, beating all the time, Mix toh gether 12 chopped glace cherries, a gill ‘ " of chopped almonds, half a gill of chop"ped walnuts, a gill of macaroon crumbs, two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice and half a teaspoonful of orange juice; Combine with the other mixture. and spread between and on top of your cake, Fig HOP a pint of figs finely and cook for eight minutes in 2 double boiler with four ounces of sugar and a gill of boiling water. Remove from fire, add a tablespoonful each of lemon juice and soft butter. Raisin Nut BAT five ounces of brown sugar with two tablespoonfuls of butter and half a gill of water until the mixture forms a, soft ball when tested in cold water. Remove from the fire { and mix with a gill and a half each J a ? of chopped walnuts and chopped seeded raisins. Add enough cream or tinned milk to make the right consistency for filling. . Orange _ IX together five tablespoonfuls of flour, six ounces of sugar, the grated rind of an orange, and stir in a gill of orange juice, three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and half a gill of water. Work in a beaten egg and two teaspoon-. fuls' of melted butter and cook in a . double boiler for ten minutes, stirring all the time.