Title: The ‘Sure to Rise’ Cookery Book

Publication details: T. J. Edmonds, 1914, Christchurch

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Rock Cakes.

• 1 breakfastcup flour
• 2 heaped dessertspoonfuls sugar
• 2 ozs. currants
• 2 ozs. butter (or lard)
• 1 oz. or 1 round candied peel
• 1 dessertspoonful Edmonds' Baking Powder
• Milk to mix

Rub the butter (or lard) into flour, then add other dry ingredients, the egg beaten, and sufficient milk to make stiff dough. Place in rocky shapes on cold greased oven shelf, and bake in hot oven 10 or 12 minutes.