- ½ cup butter
¾ cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup currants
1 cup raisins
½ cup citron
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon cloves
2 tablespoons brandy
½ tablespoon grated lemon rind
Cream butter, add sugar; when creamy add eggs well beaten, and remaining ingredients. Bake in an angel cake pan about two hours.
Orange Cakes
- ½ cup butter
¾ cup sugar
½ cup milk
2¼ cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
½ cup candied orange peel
Cream butter; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, alternately with milk; beat well, add well-beaten eggs and finely chopped orange peel. Drop from a teaspoon on to a buttered sheet; bake in a quick oven.
Maryland Cookies
- 2 cups flour
½ cup brown sugar
¾ cup butter
¼ cup Lowney’s Cocoa
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla
Mix and sift flour, sugar and cocoa; add butter, chop until well blended. Roll very thin, sprinkle with granulated sugar, cut with cooky cutter, bake on a buttered sheet in a moderate oven.