Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Whisk the eggs till light and creamy and mix with the butter. Add the syrup, water, spices and flour, mixing thoroughly, and lastly the soda dissolved in a little boiling water.
Blanch and chop the almonds, and sprinkle them in the bottom of the patty pans. Pour in the mixture and bake in a quick oven for about twenty minutes.
Cocoanut Cones
1 lb. powdered sugar
¹⁄₂ a grated cocoanut
5 whites of eggs
1 tea-spoon arrowroot or flour
Beat the eggs till firm. Add the sugar gradually. Beat in the cocoanut and arrowroot. Form into small cone-shaped cakes. Set on buttered paper in a tin and bake in a very moderate oven.
Cocoanut Rings
¹⁄₂ cup grated cocoanut
¹⁄₂ cup butter
³⁄₄ cups powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 table-spoon milk
2¹⁄₂ cups sifted flour
Cream the butter. Add the sugar to it and beat well. Beat the yolks and whites of the eggs separately. Stir them in. Add the milk and flour, and then gradually add the cocoanut, beating constantly. Roll out thin on a board, and cut with two different sized cutters into rings. Bake in a quick oven five to ten minutes.
Cornflour Cakes—I
¹⁄₄ lb. cornflour
¹⁄₄ lb. sifted white sugar
3 ozs. butter
¹⁄₄ tea-spoon baking powder
1 egg
Grated rind of half a lemon