The document provides recipes for plain cake, scones, foundation biscuit mixture, and shortbread. The recipes share common steps of creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs and flour, and baking in an oven. The plain cake is baked for 40 minutes while the scones are baked for 12-15 minutes and shortbread is baked for 45 minutes. Variations include adding cocoa to the plain cake or jam to the foundation biscuit mixture.
The document provides recipes for plain cake, scones, foundation biscuit mixture, and shortbread. The recipes share common steps of creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs and flour, and baking in an oven. The plain cake is baked for 40 minutes while the scones are baked for 12-15 minutes and shortbread is baked for 45 minutes. Variations include adding cocoa to the plain cake or jam to the foundation biscuit mixture.
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The document provides recipes for plain cake, scones, foundation biscuit mixture, and shortbread. The recipes share common steps of creaming butter and sugar, adding eggs and flour, and baking in an oven. The plain cake is baked for 40 minutes while the scones are baked for 12-15 minutes and shortbread is baked for 45 minutes. Variations include adding cocoa to the plain cake or jam to the foundation biscuit mixture.
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Plain Cake Scones Foundation Biscuit Mixture Short bread
125g Butter, softened 250g Self raising Flour 125g butter 100g butter 140g caster sugar 2 tablespoons Butter ½ cup caster sugar 50g caster sugar 2 eggs ¾-1 cup milk 1 egg 150g-200g plain flour Vanilla Extra flour for rolling Vanilla essence 1/3 cup of milk 1 1/3 cup Self raising flour 190g self raising flour 1. Beat butter and sugar to a cream 1. Sift flour into bowl 1. Cream the butter and sugar 1. Cream butter and sugar until 2. Add the eggs one at a time. Beat 2. Rub butter into flour with finger together until white white. well tips 2. Add egg and beat well. 2. Add sifted flout to form a stiff 3. Add vanilla 3. Make a well in the centre 3. Add vanilla. dough 4. Alternatively add sifted flour 4. Pout milk in all at once. Use a 4. Gradually add sifted flour to 3. Knead on lightly floured board and milk to mixture. palette knife mix quickly and form a stiff paste. and place at the bottom of 5. Make into soft dough. lightly until a moist dough is 5. Take small pieces and form into upturned sponge tins. 6. Pour into greased and floured formed balls 4. Press to 18mm thickness, pinch baking tin. 5. Turn out onto floured board. 6. Place on greased trays. Press edges, mark sections and prick 7. Bake in moderate oven for Knead lightly and press out to lightly with fork well. approx. 40 minutes. 2.5cm thickness. 7. Bake in moderate oven until 5. Bake in a slow oven for 8. Turn out and stand on wire rack 6. Cut with scone cutter. golden brown approximately 45 minutes to cool. 7. Place close together on floured 8. VARIATION: 9. Dust with icing sugar, cut into tray 9. Make a hollow of each ball with blocks and serve. 8. Brush over with beaten egg and back of wooden spoon. Place a VARIATION: milk. little jam in each biscuit. 3 Tablespoons cocoa 9. Bake in hot oven for 12-15 10. Bake in moderate oven 160g sugar minutes ¾ cup milk (increased to) 10. Serve warm with butter, jam and whipped cream.