Cream butter and sugar together, add eggs, then flour and powder mixed well, roll out thin, cut into shapes and bake.
MADEIRA CAKE.
- 3 eggs, their weight in butter and sugar
- The weight of 4 eggs in flour
- 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder
- Juice of one small lemon
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one by one, beat well, add lemon juice, flour, and baking powder. Bake in buttered cake tin in moderate oven for about one hour. Ice the top if desired.
DATE CAKE.
- ½ lb. butter
- ½ lb. sugar
- 6 eggs
- ½ lb. dates
- 1½ breakfastcups flour
- 1 teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder
Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs 2 at a time; beat well, add flour, powder, and fruit. Bake about 1½ hours.
PYRAMIDS.
- 1 breakfastcup flour
- 2 teaspoonfuls Edmonds’ Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoonful cornflour (or potato flour)
- ¼ lb. sugar
- ¼ lb. butter
- 4 eggs
- Flavouring
Beat butter and sugar to a cream, well whisk the eggs, sift dry ingredients together, make a hole in centre of flour, in which put butter and eggs, mix thoroughly but lightly; add flavouring liked, and bake in small patty pans in hot oven for about 10 minutes.