4 oz. flour, 2 oz. ground rice, 2&1/2 oz. butter or margarine, 2&1/2 oz. castor sugar, 1 level tsp. baking powder, 1 oz. roughly chopped glace pineapple, pinch salt, 1 egg, a little milk if necessary, sprinkling castor sugar.
Method: Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Rub butter into dry ingredients. Mix in sugar, rice and pineapple. Beat egg slightly then add to mixture, adding a little milk if it does not hold together. Put mixture in spoonfuls on greased slide, sprinkling a little castor sugar on each. Bake in hot oven. Makes about 12 cakes.
Source: contributed by Mrs C. Ebsary in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.53.
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