Frenlite cookery book / J.W. French & Co. Ltd.

Date:
[between 1950 and 1959?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Frenlite cookery book / J.W. French & Co. Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PINEAPPLE AND CHERRY LAYER CAKE First make a really light Victoria sandwich—(recipe on page 13) and bake in three sandwich tins 64” in diameter. Turn out and cool. Sandwich together with the following mixture:— Cream together 4 oz. unsalted butter or margarine with 6 oz. sieved icing sugar. Work in a few drops of pineapple essence. Take out approximately one third of the butter icing but add 1-2 oz. chopped crystallised pineapple and 1 oz. finely chopped glacé cherries to the remainder. Sandwich the three cakes together with mixture. Cover the top and sides of the cake with water icing, flavoured with a few drops of pineapple essence (or a little syrup from a tin of pineapple if you happen to have opened one). Decorate with a piping of the plain pineapple butter icing, and with cherries and pieces of crystallised pineapple. “ FRENLITE * QUEEN CAKES 8 oz. ‘‘Frenlite’’ Self-Raising Flour Milk to Mix 2 Eggs 6 oz. Margarine 6 oz. Sugar (Caster) About 3 oz. Dried Fruit 4 oz. Chopped Peel Pinch of Salt Cream the margarine and sugar until soft and light. Beat the eggs well. Sieve flour and salt. Add the eggs and flour alternately to the creamed mixture with just enough milk to make the mixture soft enough to drop easily from the end of a wooden spoon. Lastly stir in the dried fruit. Place in well-greased patty tins or paper cases and bake 15 minutes at 450°F. or Mark 6. VARIATIONS BUTTERFLY CAKES. Use the Queen Cake recipe omitting the fruit. When cool cut the top from each cake and cut in half. Fill the top with mock cream or butter icing. Replace pieces of cake into the cream to resemble the wings of a butterfly. CHERRY CAKES. Add 3 oz. well-floured and chopped glacé cherries to the cake mixture instead of the fruit. COCONUT CAKES. Add 3 oz. desiccated coconut and a few drops of vanilla essence. SEED CAKES. Omit fruit and include one dessertspoon caraway seeds. Dust the top with sugar and a few seeds before baking. Page Il for family fitness
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