Helen's Biscuits

Ingredients

• Half a pound of butter
• three eggs
• six ounces of sifted sugar
• six ounces of currants
• two ounces of candied peel
• three-quarters of a pound of dry flour
• the grated rind of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, the eggs well beaten, the flour, and then the rest of the ingredients.

2. 2

   Mix thoroughly, and beat all together for five or six minutes.

3. 3

   Drop the mixture from between two teaspoons on floured baking-sheets, and put into a hot oven.

4. 4

   Bake until a pinky-brown colour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads (1889) by Practical housewife, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Half a pound of butter, five ounces of sifted sugar, three-quarters of a pound of fine flour, an eggspoonful of pounded and sifted cinna- mon and mace, the grated rind of half a lemon, two eggs. Beat the butter to a cream with four ounces of the sugar. Add the eggs separately, then the flour, spices and lemon- peel, beating all the time, and for ten minutes after all the ingredients have been added. * Pray you do me the favour To put these few quince cakes in your pocket,^ Massinger. 1 88 BREAD AND BISCUITS. * Do you look for cakes and ale here T * Henry VIII.' Put away In a cool place for two hours to become firm. Sprinkle the remaining ounce of sugar on a pasteboard or slab, roll the paste to the sixth of an inch thick, cut it into any fanciful shapes liked, and bake in a moderate oven until a light-brown colour. Envelope Cahes^ The weight of four eggs in butter, sugar, and flour ; two ounces of sultana raisins, one ounce of dried cherries, grated rind of half a lemon, half a pint of cream. Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, flour, lemon-peel, and yolks of eggs. Beat together for ten minutes. Whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff" froth, also the cream — * Marlow. When I travel I always choose to regulate my own supper. Let the cook be called. No offence I hope^ sir ?* — * She Stoops to Conquer.' 189 BREAD AND BISCUITS. * Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage.* * As You Like It.' separately. Mix them with the other ingredi- ents. Bake the mixture in half-envelopes (old used ones will do) made to stand like boats by having the bottom corners pinched down. These must be buttered with clari- fied butter put on with a brush and orna- mented at the bottom with the cherries, chopped ; fill only half full, and bake for half an hour in a warm oven. When done, let them cool for a few minutes in the cases, then take these off, and keep the cakes in a dry place. f)elen JSfBcufts. Half a pound of butter, three eggs, six ounces of sifted sugar, six ounces of currants, two ounces of candied peel

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