Cake Recipe Bero Book
Brush over with milk and a moderately hot oven 30 minutes.
Cake recipe bero book. Vintage recipe cookery book be ro bero flour home recipes 21st edition circa 1950s scones cakes puds item be ro home recipes cookery book 21st edition circa 1950s containing over 100 recipes hints for oven and cake making etc issued by the. Thomas bell founded a wholesale grocery firm near the tyne quays and railway station in newcastle in the 1880s. When i went off to college yes alright a while ago now but the ninties rocked my mum found that be ro were still publishing it and ordered me my own copy. The recipe for this milk chocolate cake came from a tattered old be ro flour recipe book that my mother has had since the sixties.
She had an older copy and i made countless batches of the rock buns when i was younger they were like my signature bake. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees c grease your sandwich tins and put to one side sieve the flour and cocoa into a large mixing bowl add the sugar and stir rub the butter into the mixture with the tips of your fingers beat the eggs together with the milk pour the liquid into the bowl and stir. In the 1920s budding cooks could learn the art of housekeeping from be ro home recipes. Stand the tin on a thick layer of brown paper or a newspaper.
Bake in a low oven 150ºc 300ºf gas mark 2. I must admit this isn t my usual go to baking book. But every once in a. Does anyone have a recipe for rock cakes rock buns preferably the bero recipe but anyone would be good.
My mum bought me this book when we first moved into our house in 2009. I have lost my bero recipe book and am living in poland at the moment so can t get a new one. Protect a large cake by fastening a band of doubled brown paper round the tin 5 7 5 cm 2 3 inches higher than the tin. Among his top selling brands were bells royal baking powder and a self raising flour.
Also i used to have a recipe for rock cakes suitable for a diabetic and. The latest edition is packed with even more inspiring dishes together with a brand new quick and easy section which even the novice baker can follow. Place in a well greased round cake tin inches in 3 inches dee brush with mi k and bake a moderately oven about to two equal to make cokes divide the mixture in portions. First published in 1923 and now in its 41st edition the be ro recipe book is arguably one of the best selling cookery books ever with more than thirty eight million copies having been sold.
Bero chocolate cake recipe 200g self raising flour 225g caster sugar 25g sifted cocoa powder 100g margarine 2 x eggs medium 75ml evaporated milk normal milk works fine 75ml water 1 x tsp vanilla essence. Pastry three rules for pastry making l handle lightly. And well 7 inch cake tins. But it was first published in 1923.
I tend to pick up my peyton byrne book or the river cottage cakes book. Cover the cake with paper or foil after 2 hours or if browning too quickly.