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PICNIC DAINTIES.

• 11/2 breakfastcups flour
• 3 tablespoonfuls butter
• 2 tablespoonfuls sugar
• 1 dessertspoonful Edmonds' Egg Powder
• Milk to mix

Rub butter into flour, then stir in sugar, egg powder and sufficient milk to make firm dough. Roll and cut into rounds, place one teaspoonful of raspberry jam in the centre; wet the edges and press them together. Place on cold greased oven shelf. Bake 12 minutes.

SEED CAKE.

• 1/2 ℔. butter
• 1/2 ℔. sugar
• 6 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoonful Edmonds' Baking Powder
• Caraway seed, lemon peel

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, then add the eggs, beating in one by one with the hand; lastly, add flour and baking powder, mixed together, with seeds and lemon peel as desired.

GINGER CAKE.

• 2 breakfastcups flour
• 1 teacup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Edmonds' Baking Powder
• 1 teacup golden syrup
• 1 teacup butter
• 1 teacup milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 dessertspoons ground ginger
• 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoonful spice

Mix dry ingredients, add eggs well beaten, and butter (melted) last of all; bake three-quarters of an hour.

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