Marguerites, or Jelly Cakes
A historical recipe from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878).
A historical recipe
Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Project Gutenberg eBook #42450.
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From Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree (1878). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #42450 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42450). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
Method
- Rub together one pound sugar, one pound of butter, till perfectly light.
- Beat six eggs till very thick, leaving out the whites.
- Sift one and a half pound of flour into the eggs, butter, and sugar, one teaspoonful of mixed spices (cinnamon, mace, and nutmeg), and half a glass of rose water.
- Stir the whole well, and roll it on the paste-board about one-quarter inch thick.
- Then cut out the cakes and bake them a few minutes.
- When cold, spread the surface of each cake with peach jam or any marmalade.
- Beat the whites of four eggs very light, and add enough powdered sugar to make them as thick as icing.
- Flavor it with lemon or rose water and with a spoon put it on each cake, high in the centre.
- Put the cakes in the oven, and as soon as they are of a pale brown take them out.--Mrs.
- I.
- H.