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Naples Biscuit.
Beat twelve eggs till light; add to them a pound of dried flour and one of
powdered sugar; beat all together till perfectly light; put in some rose water
and nutmeg, and bake it in small shallow pans in a moderately heated oven.
New Year Cake.
Mix together three pounds of flour, a pound and a half of sugar, and
three-quarters of a pound of butter; dissolve a tea-spoonful of salæratus in
enough new milk to wet the flour; mix them together; grate in a nutmeg, or the
peel of a lemon; roll them out, cut them in shapes, and bake.
Cider Cake.
Take a pound and a half of flour, three-quarters of sugar, and a quarter of a
pound of butter; dissolve a tea-spoonful of salæratus in as much cider as will
make it a soft dough, and bake it in shallow pans; season it with spice to your
taste.
Dover Cake.
One pound of flour, one of sugar, half a pound of butter, six eggs, half a
nutmeg, a spoonful of rose brandy; beat the butter and sugar together, adding
the other ingredients, the whites of the eggs beaten separately; bake as pound
cake.
Jelly Cake.
This cake can be made by the sponge, cup, or Dover cake recipe; have shallow tin
pans or plates of the same size, butter them, and pour in the batter so as to be
about half an inch thick when baked; they take but
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