Ingredients

3 eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon flour

1/2 cup arrowroot

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 tablespoon honey

Filling

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons boiling water

2 tablespoons milk

Method

Beat eggs and sugar together well, add flour, arrowroot, cream of tartar, and bicarbonate of soda, then honey. Pour into well-greased tins and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. For filling, beat butter and sugar to a cream, add boiling water and beat well, then slowly beat in milk, drop by drop.

Ingredients

1/2 lb butter

3/4 lb sugar

6 eggs

1 small cup milk

1 lb self-raising flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

Method

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add egg yolks and beat till thick, add milk, then sifted flour and salt, fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Put in greased tin and bake in a moderate oven for approximately 40 minutes.

Ingredients

1 flat sponge cake

some smooth jam

1/2 lb almond paste

white of 1 egg

2 oz. grated chocolate

few blanched almonds

Method

Make sponge cake, cut into small rounds and join them together with jam, make almond paste and cut it into as many pieces as there are cakes, roll out and brush lightly with white of egg, cover cakes with paste, making them into the shape of potatoes, brush over with white of egg and roll in grated chocolate, make small holes with skewers and insert strips of almond to represent eyes.

Too Salty -If soups, stews or casseroles become to salty, add raw potato or more raw potato, and they will absorb the salt.

Ingredients

1/4 lb butter

3 oz. sugar

1 egg

1 tablespoon coffee essence

1/2 lb self-raising flour

Filling

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon sugar

coffee essence

Method

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add well beaten egg and essence, stir in flour, place in teaspoonfuls on a greased tin and bake in a moderate oven 8 to 12 minutes, make coffee filling by beating the butter, sugar, and coffee essence to a cream, join kisses together with this filling and sprinkle with icing sugar.

TO POLISH STEEL, FENDERS, FIRE-IRONS, etc. - Powder some bath-brick, and make it into a paste with turpentine. Apply to the steel with a piece of flannel and polish with a clean soft duster or flannel. This is an excellent recipe for cleaning fire irons that have been neglected. (From old pages. Interest piece only)

Ingredients

3 eggs

1/4 lb flour

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 tablespoon milk

1 tablespoon butter

1 gill cream

Small amount or black currant jelly

pale pink warm icing

Small amount royal icing for ornamenting

Method

Beat eggs and sugar till thick, then add sifted flour and cream of tartar, stirring in lightly, dissolve bicarbonate of soda in heated milk and butter, and stir into mixture Bake in a moderate oven in a flat greased tin about 20 minutes. When sponge cake is cold cut into small rounds with a plain cutter and slice each round in halves, take a piece out of centre. Whip cream, red currant jelly and a little sugar together, place in centre and replace the top, cover with pale pink warm icing, ornament in a fancy pattern round the edge with royal icing.

Ingredients

1/2 lb short crust

2 oz. butter

2 oz. castor sugar

2 eggs

2 oz. cake crumbs

1 oz. candied peel

few cherries

1 oz. cornflour

Method

Mix short crust, roll out, cut into rounds and line grease patty tins. Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks of eggs, cake crumbs, candied peel, cherries, and cornflour, stir in lightly stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Fill cases with mixture, decorate with strips of pastry and bake in a moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes.

Ingredients

1 lb plain flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 dessertspoon sugar

1 oz. compressed yeast

1 1/2 oz. butter

1 3/4 gills milk

1 egg

Extra Ingredients

1/4 lb sugar

1/4 lb butter

1/4 lb raisins

1/2 teaspoon spice

1/4 lb mixed peel

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Glaze

2 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons water

Method

Sift flour and salt together into warm basin and warm it, beat sugar and yeast till creamy, melt butter in saucepan, then add milk and warm. Beat egg, pour into milk and butter, then mix this with yeast and sugar, make a well in centre of flour, pour mixture in, and mix well together. Knead well on lightly floured surface, return to basin and set aside to rise in a warm place for 50 minutes, turn on to lightly floured surface and knead. Press into a long piece, mix together the items under the heading “Extra Ingredients” and spread on centre of dough, fold over sides and roll like a rope, place in greased wreath cake tin and bake in a hot oven 30 minutes. For glaze, boil sugar and water together 3 minutes and brush over wreath cake while still hot.

Ingredients

1/4 lb butter

2 oz. sugar

1 egg

3 oz. flour

1 1/2 oz. cornflour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Ingredients-Filling

1 1/2 oz. melted butter

strawberries

1 gill cream

Method

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add well beaten egg, lastly add flour, cornflour, and baking powder sifted together, place in greased 8 inch sandwich tin and bake 15 to 20 minutes. Turn out carefully, and allow to cool, split in half, pour melted butter over one half, then half the cream and half the strawberries, place other portion of cake on top, and spread remainder of cream over it, decorate with whole fresh strawberries.

Peaches or bananas may be substituted for the strawberries.

 CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS-Sulphate of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, 10 grains; peppermint water, 11 drachms; spirits of nutmeg, 1 drachm. Dose: 1 teaspoon to be taken in a wineglass of water twice a day. Highly recommended. (From old pages. Interest piece only)

Ingredients

2 dozen small cakes baked in gem irons

3/4 cup soft vanilla butter icing

1 packet of raspberry jelly

2 cups desiccated coconut.

Method

When cakes are cool, split and spread with a little icing. Make jelly with a little less water than usual and allow to stand in the fridge until beginning to set. Dip cakes in jelly one at a time then roll in coconut. Allow to set firmly in the fridge but do not store there as cakes become hard.

Ingredients

1/2 lb butter

1/2 lb sugar

4 eggs

1/2 lb arrowroot

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Method

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add well beaten yolks, add sifted dry ingredients, fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, beat 10 minutes. Bake in a moderate oven for 40 minutes.

Cure For Diarrhoea-40 drops of oil of peppermint, 80 drops of laudanum, 1/2 pint brandy. Mix together. Take 1 tablespoonful in the same quantity of water; repeat the dose in 10 minutes. If the symptoms are not relieved, continue taking the medicine at intervals of half an hour. For adults only. This remedy has been successfully used for English cholera. (From old pages. Interest piece only)