Cassell's dictionary of cookery

ounces of sweet dripping into a pound of flour, add a pinch of salt, a tea-spoonful of mixed spice, a table-spoonful of caraway-seeds, and six ounces of sugar. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Put a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda into half a pint of milk, and set it in the oven till the soda is dissolved. Let the milk cool a little, and when it is lukewarm add a tea-spoonful of vinegar, and stir it into the cake. Beat the cake well, put it into a buttered hoop, and bake in a moderately-heated oven. Time to bake, one hour. Probable cost, 4d. per pound. Sufficient for a moderate-sized cake. No. 2. Rub a quarter of a pound of butter into three pounds of flour; add half a tea-spoonful of salt, three heaped tea-spoonfuls of baking powder, two tea-spoonfuls of mixed spice, two ounces of caraway-seeds, a pinch of powdered mace or grated nutmeg, eight ounces of sugar, and two ounces of candied peel chopped small. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Beat them to a paste with a pint of milk, and bake in a well-heated oven. Time to bake, three-quarters of an hour to one hour. Probable cost, 5d. per pound. Sufficient for two moderate-sized cakes. No. 3. Rub six ounces of butter into a pound of flom', add a pinch of salt, six ounces of moist sugar, and two table-spoonfuls of carawayseeds. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Dissolve a small dessert-spoonful of carbonate of soda in a table-spoonful of milk. Add this to as much milk as will make up half a pint altogether, stir the milk to two well-beaten eggs, and afterwards beat the whole into the cake. Put the mixture into a buttered tin, and bake in a moderately-heated oven. A little spice and candied peel can be added, if approved. Time to bake, one hour. Probable cost, 8d. per pound. Suflicient for a moderatesized cake. No. 4. Rub six ounces of butter into three-quarters of a poimd of flour, add a pinch of salt, five ounces of the best moist sugar, and a dessert-spoonful of carawayseed. Dissolve half a small tea-spoonful of soda in a tea-spoonful of hot milk. Beat this up with two eggs already well whisked, and stii- the whole into the cake. Put the mixture into a buttered tin, and bake in a moderately-heated oven. Time to bake, from thirty to forty minutes. Probable cost, 9d. per pound. Seidlitz Water, Bottled.— Take a sufficient number of soda-water bottles, and fiU them with clear water ; then add the following ingredients, and cork and wire the bottles immediately : — Two drachms of Rochelle salts, thirty-five grains of bicarbonate of soda, and eleven drops of sulphuric acid. Seir Pish. — This fish inhabits the seas of the East Indies, and is one of the most valuable products of these parts. In size and form it closely resembles the salmon ; its fiesh also is similar in point of firmness and flavoiu-. The colour of the flesh is white. Semolina. — Semolina, or Semoule, or Soujee, is simplj' a nourishing and wholesome preparation of wheat-flour. It may be made into puddings or used for thickening soups, and is specially suitable for the use of children and sick people. It may be purchased of grocers or Italian warehousemen.