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Chapter XXIX − PASTRY DESSERTS  
Banbury Tarts  
1
1
cup raisins  
1
cup sugar  
1
egg  
cracker  
Juice and grated rind 1 lemon  
STONE and chop raisins, add sugar, egg slightly beaten, cracker finely rolled, and lemon  
juice  
and rind. Roll pastry one−eighth inch thick, and cut pieces three and one−half inches long by  
three inches wide. Put two teaspoons of mixture on each piece. Moisten /?/ with cold water  
half−way round, fold over, press edges /?/ with three−tined fork, first dipped in flour. Bake  
twenty minutes in slow oven.  
1
Cheese Cakes  
1
cup sweet  
milk  
Juice and grated rind one  
lemon  
1
cup sour  
milk  
1
/4 cup almonds, blanched  
and chopped  
cup sugar  
Yolks 4 eggs  
1
1
/4 teaspoon salt  
Scald sweet and sour milk, strain through cheese−cloth. To curd add sugar, yolks of eggs  
slightly  
beaten, lemon, and salt. Line patty pans with paste, fill with mixture, and sprinkle with  
chopped  
almonds. Bake until mixture is firm to the touch.  
2
Cheese Straws  
Roll puff or plain paste one−fourth inch thick, sprinkle one−half with grated cheese to which  
has  
been added few grains of salt and cayenne. Fold, press edges firmly together, fold again, pat,  
and roll out one−fourth inch thick. Sprinkle with cheese and proceed as before; repeat twice.  
Cut in strips five inches long and one−fourth inch wide. Bake eight minutes in hot oven.  
Parmesan  
cheese, or equal parts of Parmesan and Edam cheese, may be used. Cheese straws are piled  
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