Jumbles

Ingredients

• rinds of two lemons
• good sugar
• one pound of flour
• four well-beaten eggs
• six ounces of warm butter

Method

1. 1

   Dry and powder the lemon rinds with sugar, sift with more sugar to make a pound.

2. 2

   Mix with flour, eggs, and butter.

3. 3

   Drop the mixture on buttered tins and bake in a slow oven for 20 to 30 minutes until pale and crisp.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 483. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

JUMBLES. Hasp on some good sugar the rinds of two lemons ; dry, reduce it to powder, and sift it with as much more as will make up a pound in weight ; mix with it one pound of flour, four well-beaten eggs, and six ounces of warm butter

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