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Baked Jam Roll

A historical recipe from The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914).

A historical recipe

The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #49707.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Its words name: preserving or pickling. Check current food-safety guidance before following this.

Source and licence

From The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #49707 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49707). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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New Zealand. Associated with New Zealand by the book is about New Zealand cookery (Cooking, New Zealand); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Method

  1. ½ lb.
  2. flour 4 ozs.
  3. dripping (or lard or butter) Salt a little ½ teaspoon Edmonds’ Baking Powder ½ teaspoon Sugar (fine) Water to mix Beat butter (or dripping) to a cream, add all other ingredients, and sufficient water to make a dough, roll out into shape, and spread with apricot or raspberry jam, sliced apples, plums, or any fruit desired could be substituted for jam.
  4. Put in a baking dish;
  5. bake in moderate oven.