Clove Drop Biscuits

Ingredients

• 4oz. of warmed butter
• 4oz. of crushed loaf sugar
• three eggs
• loz. of ground Cloves
• 6oz. of sifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the warmed butter to a cream, gradually sift in the crushed loaf sugar while beating vigorously.

2. 2

   Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

3. 3

   Gently mix in the ground Cloves and sifted flour.

4. 4

   Use a biscuit-forcer to squeeze out small quantities onto a baking-sheet lined with paper.

5. 5

   Bake in a quick oven until done, then let cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 387. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Clove Drop Biscuits. — Beat- 4oz. of warmed butter in a round-bottomed basin to a cream, using a ivooden spoon, and sift in gradually 4oz. of crushed loaf sugar, beating Fig. 481. Clove Drop Biscuits vigorously ; then add three eggs, beating one well in before another is added, and lastly, add gently loz. of ground Cloves, mixed in with 6oz. of sifted flour

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