Pound Cake.
Recipe No. 2.
Take: White sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ¾ lb.; eggs, 10; flour, 1 lb.; currants, 1 teacupful; mace, ½ teaspoonful; nutmeg, ½ (grated).
Beat a pound of fine white sugar, and three quarters of a pound of butter to a cream; beat up ten eggs, the whites and yolks separately; add the yolks to the butter and sugar, half a teaspoonful of mace, and half a grated nutmeg; mix well together, and add the whites of the eggs; stir in a pound of flour thoroughly, and then add a teacupful of currants, washed and dried. Bake in a rather quick oven.
Quick Cake.
Take: Raised bread-dough, 1½ lbs.; butter, ½ lb.; sugar, ¾ lb.; eggs, 4; cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful; nutmeg, 1; milk, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; raisins, (seeded), 1 lb.
Melt half a pound of butter, and when cool, work it into a pound and a half of raised bread-dough. Beat four eggs and three quarters of a pound of rolled sugar together, and mix with the dough; add a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and a grated nutmeg. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of soda in a teaspoonful of milk, strain it over the dough, and work the whole with the hands for a quarter of an hour; then add a pound of seeded raisins, and put it into cake pans. Let it stand in them until light before putting it into the oven.
Savory Cakes.
Take: White sugar, 1 lb.; eggs, 8; flour, 1 lb.; coriander seed, 2 tablespoonfuls; lemon 1.
Mix together a pound of powdered white sugar and eight eggs, the whites and yolks beaten up separately; beat them well together for several minutes, then add the grated rind of a fresh lemon and half the juice, a pound of flour, and two tablespoonfuls of coriander seed. Drop this batter by the large spoonful upon buttered baking pans, sift white sugar over them and bake them immediately in a quick oven.