Cookies made with Lemon

Ingredients

• Jib. of butter
• lib. of sugar
• the grated yellow rind of one
• the strained juice of two lemons
• the beaten yolks of three eggs
• the whites of three eggs
• about lib. of flour

Method

1. 1

   Warm butter and beat with sugar, lemon rind, and juice.

2. 2

   Whisk in beaten yolks, then add beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Stir in enough flour to make a stiff dough.

4. 4

   Roll out, cut into cakes, and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 470. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cookies made with Lemon. — Warm slightly Jib. of butter, and beat it to a cream together with lib. of sugar, the grated yellow rind of one and the strained juice of two lemons; after beating for at least five minutes, whisk in the beaten yolks of three eggs, and when they are well mixed, whisk in the whites of three eggs

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