Queen Cakes Recipe
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Ingredients for Queen Cakes Recipe
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- ¼ cup currants
- ¼ cup glace cherries (cut in dice), grate nutmeg
- Thin rind½ lemon (chopped finely)
- Juice 1 lemon
- 1 cup flour
- 4 tablespoons rice flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
- Put vegetable shortening and sugar in basin and work with wooden spoon to cream, add salt and eggs 1 by 1, and beat mixture thoroughly.
- Mix in separate basin fruit, lemon rind, flours and baking powder.
- Stir this into other mixture, add nutmeg, and strained lemon juice.
- Stir mixture several minutes longer.
- Have ready vegetable shorteninged gem tins, three-parts fill them with mixture and bake in fairly hot oven from 20 to 25 minutes.
- Unmold cakes and place on sieve to cool.
- Cakes may be coated with chocolate or boiled frosting.
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