1832 - Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

Jumbles

DDV CULINARY

Three eggs.

Half a pound of flour, sifted.

Half a pound of butter.

Half a pound of powdered loaf-sugar.

A table-spoonful of rose-water.

A nutmeg grated.

A tea-spoonful of mixed mace and cinnamon.

Stir the sugar and butter to a cream.
Beat the eggs very light.
Throw them, all at once, into the pan of flour.
Put in, at once, the butter and sugar, and then add the spice and rose-water.
If you have no rose-water, substitute six or seven drops of strong essence of lemon,
or more if the essence is weak. Stir the whole very hard, with a knife.

Spread some flour on your paste-board, and flour your hands well.
Take up with your knife, a portion of the dough, and lay it on the board.
Roll it lightly with your hands, into long thin rolls, which must be cut into equal lengths,
curled up into rings, and laid gently into an iron or tin pan, buttered,
not too close to each other, as they spread in baking.
Bake them in a quick oven about five minutes, and grate loaf-sugar over them when cool.

*Cocoa-nut cakes may be made in a similar manner, substituting for the pounded almonds
half a pound of finely-grated cocoa-nut. They must be made into small round balls with a
little flour laid on the palm of the hand, and baked a few minutes. They are very fine.