Beat up the eggs, add to them the sugar, lemon-juice and rind; melt the butter in a saucepan, add the other ingredients to it, and simmer gently till the mixture thickens, stirring all the time. This mixture can be used like jam, and will keep some time.
Oatmeal Biscuits. Time—¾ hour.
5 oz. flour, 7 oz. oatmeal, 1 oz. castor sugar, 3 oz. butter, ¼ teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 egg.
Melt the butter, mix the flour, sugar, oatmeal, and baking-powder, together; stir in the melted butter. Break the egg into a teacup, beat it up with a little water, and stir it into the other ingredients to form a paste. Turn the paste on to a board, and roll it out very thin, cut it into rounds with a cutter or tumbler, place the biscuits on a greased tin and bake 20 minutes.
Orange Cake. Time—1 hour.
The weight of 2 eggs in butter, sugar and flour; part of the juice and all the rind of 1 orange and a little baking-powder.
Cream the butter and sugar together about 5 minutes, add the orange-peel and 1 egg, and part of the flour. Use part of the juice for the cake, and the rest for the icing. Stir in the juice and baking-powder, add the rest of the ingredients, grease and sugar the tin, fill it ⅓ and bake ½ hour.
Icing, 1 tablespoonful water to ¼ lb. best icing sugar and orange juice. Stand this in a cup of warm water, and when liquid pour over the cake.
Plum Loaf. Time—¾ hour.
½ lb. flour, 1 tablespoonful of baking-powder, salt, 2 oz. currants, milk.