Lady Fingers
From Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide, 1882
Serves 1
Careful baking is essential for proper texture.
Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
LADY FINGERS. Four ounces sugar, 4 yolks of eggs. Mix well. Three ounces of flour, a little salt. Beat the 4 whites to a stiff froth, stir the whites into the mix- ture a little at a time until all is in. Butter a shal- low pan. Squirt through a confectionery syringe, or a piece of paper rolled up. Dust with sugar and bake in not too hot an oven. INDIAN MEAL POUND CAKE. Sift I pint of yellow corn meal and half a pint wheat flour, into which first put a tea-spoonful of baking powder and a small spoonful salt, i grated nutmeg, i table-spoonful ground cinnamon, put ^ pound granulated sugar and half a pound of butter together. Beat 8 eggs very light, and add to the butter and sugar alternately with the meal, a little at a time, and a half cup of milk, and have a dish or pan well buttered. Bake in a moderate oven. It takes a long time to bake. LINCOLN CAKE. Rub I pound sugar and ^ pound butter to- gether, and add the yolks of 6 well beaten eggs, 2 cupfuls sour cream, with i tea-spoonful soda dis- 312 DOMESTIC GUIDE. solved in a little boiling water and stirred into it just before adding to the cake I tea-spoonful each of nutmeg and cinnamon, and i pound of sifted flour, I table-spoonful rose water, half a pound of citron cut and dredged with flour, and lastly the whites of the eggs, which must be beaten very- stiff before being added. Then beat all thorough- ly together and bake in square shallow pans. WHITE AND YELLOW MOUNTAIN CAKE. Two cups sugar ^ cup butter, whites of 7 egg
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