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Raspberry Delights

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.

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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Ingredients

  • a teaspoonful of raspberry jam
  • 1 egg

Method

  1. 2 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 egg 2 tablespoonfuls butter ½ teaspoonful Edmonds’ Baking Powder 1 teaspoonful flour 1 tablespoonful Edmonds’ Custard Powder MODE.—Cream butter and sugar together, add the egg;
  2. mix flour, baking, and custard powder together, and add by degrees to mixture.
  3. Place in greased patty-tins on cold oven shelf, and bake ten minutes.
  4. When nearly baked, place a teaspoonful of raspberry jam on each, and then bake a little longer.