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

Plain Scones.

• 1 breakfastcup flour (piled up)
• 1½ teaspoons Edmonds' Baking Powder
• 1 oz. butter (or lard)
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 egg

Rub butter (or lard) into flour, then add other dry ingredients, beat egg with little water, mix all into dough. Bake as usual, quick oven. If made without the egg, use milk in place of water.