Flannel Cake

The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bre... · Beaty-Pownall, S · 1904
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The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bread, cakes, and biscuits
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Ingredients (15)
Instructions (11)
  1. Rub 2oz. of butter smoothly into a quart of flour.
  2. Add a teaspoonful of salt, the well-beaten yolks of three eggs, and one and a half pints of milk.
  3. Beat this all vigorously into the flour till smooth.
  4. Mix in the stiffly-whipped whites of the eggs and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
  5. Bake quickly on a hot girdle.
Alternative Method
  1. Dissolve over the fire two full tablespoonfuls of butter in a pint of sweet milk.
  2. When it is all dissolved, add in, off the fire, a pint of cold milk, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, a teaspoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls of potato yeast, and enough flour to make it all a stiff batter.
  3. Set it in a warm place to rise, for three hours.
  4. Add the well-whisked whites of the eggs.
  5. Bake on a hot greased girdle.
  6. The batter at the last should be just stiff enough to drop neatly from the spoon.
Original Text · last edited 4 days ago
Flannel Cake.—Rub 2oz. of butter smoothly into a quart of flour, then add a teaspoonful of salt, the well-beaten yolks of three eggs, and one and a half pints of milk; beat this all vigorously into the flour till smooth, when you mix in the stiffly-whipped whites of the eggs and two teaspoon-fuls of baking powder. Bake quickly on a hot girdle. Or, dissolve over the fire two full tablespoonfuls of butter in a pint of sweet milk, and, when it is all dissolved, add in, off the fire, a pint of cold milk, the well-beaten yolks of four eggs, a teaspoonful of salt, four tablespoonfuls of potato yeast, and enough flour to make it all a stiff batter. Set it in a warm place to rise, for three hours; then add the well-whisked whites of the eggs, and bake on a hot greased girdle. The batter at the last should be just stiff enough to drop neatly from the spoon.
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