Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg, stir in the milk, juice and rind. Mix the soda and tartar in the flour, and stir it in gradually till the paste is rather stiff. Roll out rather thin. Cut in ovals with cutter, and bake in a quick oven about 5 minutes.
56. Cocoanut Gingerbread.
½-lb. flour.
2-oz. sugar.
1 teaspoonful carbonate soda.
½-gill milk.
1 egg.
½-lb. treacle.
2-oz. butter.
¼-lb. cocoanut.
¼-oz. ginger.
Dissolve the butter and sugar and syrup and add the other ingredients and lastly the soda dissolved in milk. Bake 1 hour.
57. Lemon Buns.
3-oz. butter.
6-oz. sugar.
2 eggs.
½-lb. flour.
Grated peel of 1 lemon.
2 teaspoonsful baking powder.
Bake in patty pans in a moderate oven.
58. Ashton Sandwiches.
Beat 3 eggs with 3-oz. sugar for 10 minutes, add 3-oz. flour and bake in a flat tin lined with buttered paper. They will not take more than 7 minutes to bake. When cold, cut in fingers, divide each through the middle, spread with jam, ice on the top and decorate with preserved cherries or angelica.