Cakes, Al′mond. Prep. 1. From sweet almonds (blanched and beaten to a smooth paste), flour and powdered sugar, of each 1⁄2 lb.; 7 eggs, and the outside peel of 4 lemons (shredded small). The almonds, sugar, lemon peel, and eggs, are beaten together, until as white as sponge paste; the flour next worked in, and the paste put into buttered moulds, and baked in a slack oven, with 8 or 10 thicknesses of white paper under them and one or two over them.
2. Almonds, 1 lb.; sugar, 1⁄2 lb.; rose water or orange-flower water, 1⁄4 pint; flour, 3⁄4 lb.; 3 eggs; as above. Some persons ice these cakes.
Cakes, Ban′bury. Prep. From butter and dough fermented for white bread, of each 1 lb., as in making puff paste, then rolled out very thin, and cut into oval or triangular pieces, or other shapes. On these are placed a mixture of currants and moist sugar, equal parts, wetted with a little wine or brandy, and the paste being closed up, they are placed on a tin with the closed side downwards, and baked. A little powdered sugar, flavoured with candied peel (grated), or essence of lemon, is sifted over them as soon as they come out of the oven. In the common cakes of the shops the brandy is omitted, and lard is used for butter, but less of it.
Cakes, Bath. Prep. From butter, 1⁄2 lb., flour, 1 lb., 5 eggs, and a cupful of yeast; when risen, add powdered sugar, 4 oz., and caraways, 1 oz. Bake them on tins.
Cakes, Cheese. Prep. 1. Curdle some warm new milk with rennet, drain the curd in a linen bag, and add 1⁄4 of its weight, each, of sugar and butter, 6 eggs, some grated nutmeg, and a little orange flower or rose water.
2. (Almond Cheese Cakes.) To the above add as much blanched almonds, beaten to a smooth paste, as there is butter, and an equal weight of macaroni.
3. (Lemon Cheese Cakes.) To the first form add lemon peel (grated fine), or essence of lemon, q. s.
Cakes, Di′et. Syn. Diet bread. Prep. 1. Dissolve sugar, 1 lb., in milk, 1⁄2 pint; add 6 eggs, and whisk the mixture to a full froth, then cautiously stir in flour, 1 lb., beat it for 3⁄4 hour, and immediately bake it in a quick oven. It may be baked whole or divided into small cakes.
2. From fine flour and powdered sugar, equal parts; 6 eggs; and the juice and rind (grated) of 1 lemon.
Cakes, Drop. Prep. Eggs, 1 dozen; rosewater, 1 table-spoonful; powdered sugar, 1⁄2 lb.; fine flour, 1⁄2 lb.; and caraways, 1⁄2 oz. Drop it on wafer paper, and bake as before.