Cherry Biscuits

Ingredients

• -J- lb. flour
• 1 oz. ground almonds
• 4 lb. butter
• £ lb. sugar
• 1 egg
• crystallised cherries

Method

1. 1

   Mix the almonds with the flour and then rub in the butter; beat the egg and sugar together, pour this into the flour and make it up into a dough.

2. 2

   Roll this out to about one-eighth inch thick and stamp out into rounds with a fluted cutter about 1-1- inches diameter.

3. 3

   Double these rounds over and nip the edges together, put a quarter of a cherry in each end, place then on a baking sheet and bake in a sharp oven (400° F.) for ten minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Sea Cookery (1911) by Richard Bond, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHERRY BISCUITS. -J- lb. flour 1 oz. ground almonds 4 lb. butter £ lb. sugar 1 egg crystallised cherries

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.