Five o'clock Tea Biscuits

Ingredients

• one-quarter of a pound of flour
• one cup of sugar
• the rind and juice of two lemons
• half a pound of butter
• the whites of two eggs
• a little milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour into sugar, add lemon rind and juice, butter to a smooth paste, with the whites of eggs and a little milk.

2. 2

   Roll thin, cut into biscuits, brush with yolks of eggs, sprinkle with pulverized sugar, and bake in buttered tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Five o'clock Tea Biscuits. Mix one-quarter of a pound of flour ' into one cup of sugar, the rind and juice of two lemons, half a pound of butter to a smooth paste, , with the whites of two eggs and a little milk

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