Ode to Mrs Beeton: Rock and/or Roll for a Game, Set and Match

Friday, January 22, 2010

Rock and/or Roll for a Game, Set and Match

Topical too, because we are hosting the Australian Open right now.

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3 comments:

Packrat said...: Always asking, but do you have recipes for these? Willing to share? Please??? :); January 23, 2010 at 1:03 AM
weenie_elise said...: SWISS ROLL: see this post

ROCK CAKES: 6 oz. of butter, 1 lb. of flour, 6 oz. of moist sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of essence of lemon, 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, milk.

Rub the butter, flour, baking powder and sugar together, mix in the eggs well beaten, the essence of lemon and 1/2 a gill of milk. Drop the cake mixture, which should be fairly stiff, upon a baking tin as roughly as possible and bake for about 1/4 of an hour in a rather quick over.

TENNIS CAKE: 1 lb of flour, 3/4 of a lb of butter, 1/2 a lb. of castor sugar, 1/2 a lb of chopped raisins, 2 oz. of almonds, 3 oz. of candied peel, the grated rind and juice of a lemon, 5 eggs, preserved cherries, angelica, 1 gill of milk, icing.

Put the sugar and butter into a clean basin and cream, add the flavouring, and then beat in the eggs one at a time. When all the eggs have been beating in, add the flour and fruit, and well mix, using a little milk, if necessary. Line a cake tin with greased white paper, put in the cake and backe in a well-heated oven for 1 1/2 hours. Ice the cake with white icing and before it sets ornament with cherries and angelica, the latter cut as leaves, any other icing may be used, and any garnish; January 25, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Packrat said...: Thank you. I really want to try the tennis cake.; January 26, 2010 at 2:10 AM

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