¹⁄₂ lb. butter
¹⁄₂ lb. sifted sugar
¹⁄₂ lb. flour
Juice and grated rind of half a lemon
2 eggs
Cream the butter. Add the sugar. Beat the eggs and add with the rest of the ingredients, beating all thoroughly. Grease a baking tin and drop the mixture on it by tea-spoonfuls. Bake about five minutes in a moderate oven. Slip the cakes off the tin with a knife. Lay a number of bottles on their sides on a table. Lay the cakes on them to cool, and press gently down on the bottles in order to give them a rounded shape. These cakes should be very thin and richly coloured round the edges.
*Butter Rings
3 ozs. butter
2 eggs
4 yolks
¹⁄₂ lb. sugar
¹⁄₂ lb. flour
Grated rind of a lemon
Beat the butter to a cream. Add one egg and five yolks (which should have been well beaten together) and the sugar. Then add the flour and the lemon rind. Beat until smooth and light. Roll out the mixture lightly and cut it into ring-shaped biscuits. Brush over each with the white of an egg, and sprinkle crystallised sugar over them. Bake in a slow oven on a well greased tin.
Caraway Cakes
3 lbs. sugar
1 lb. butter
¹⁄₂ pint cold water
3 eggs
3 lbs. flour
1 tea-spoon soda
4 table-spoons caraway seeds
Cut the butter up in the flour as finely as possible. Dissolve the sugar in the water. Add it to the butter and flour. Beat the eggs till very light and add them to the mixture. Dissolve the soda in a very little hot water and stir it in. Roll the caraway seeds in a little flour, and add them, mixing thoroughly. Roll out lightly and cut in round shapes. Bake quickly on a greased tin.
*Chocolate Cakes—I
6 ozs. sifted sugar
¹⁄₄ lb. sifted chocolate powder
2 ozs. sifted flour
4 whites of eggs