Snow-Cake

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 75 min Total: 75 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (12)
  1. Beat the butter to a cream.
  2. Add the egg, previously well beaten.
  3. Add the other ingredients.
  4. If the mixture is not light, add another egg, and beat for 1/4 hour, until it turns white and light.
  5. Line a flat tin, with raised edges, with a sheet of buttered paper.
  6. Pour in the cake, and put it into the oven.
  7. The oven must be rather slow, and the cake not allowed to brown at all.
  8. If the oven is properly heated, 1 to 1-1/4 hour will be found long enough to bake it.
  9. Let it cool a few minutes.
  10. With a clean sharp knife cut it into small square pieces.
  11. Gently remove the pieces to a large flat dish to cool before putting away.
  12. This will keep for several weeks.
Original Text
SNOW-CAKE. 1777. INGREDIENTS.—1/2 lb. of tous-les-mois, 1/4 lb. of white pounded sugar, 1/4 lb. of fresh or washed salt butter, 1 egg, the juice of 1 lemon. Mode.—Beat the butter to a cream; then add the egg, previously well beaten, and then the other ingredients; if the mixture is not light, add another egg, and beat for 1/4 hour, until it turns white and light. Line a flat tin, with raised edges, with a sheet of buttered paper; pour in the cake, and put it into the oven. It must be rather slow, and the cake not allowed to brown at all. If the oven is properly heated, 1 to 1-1/4 hour will be found long enough to bake it. Let it cool a few minutes, then with a clean sharp knife cut it into small square pieces, which should be gently removed to a large flat dish to cool before putting away. This will keep for several weeks. Time.—1 to 1-1/4 hour. Average cost, 1s. 3d. Seasonable at any time.
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