Lady-Fingers

Ingredients

• Four eggs
• three-fourths of a cupful of pastry flour
• half a cupful of powdered sugar

Method

1. 1

   Have the bottom of three large baking pans covered with paraffine paper or sheets of buttered note paper.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar to a froth.

3. 3

   Beat the whites to a stiff, dry froth, and add to the yolks and sugar.

4. 4

   Add the flour, and stir quickly and gently.

5. 5

   Pour the mixture into the pastry bag, and press it through onto the paper in the shape and of the size you wish.

6. 6

   When all the mixture has been used, sprinkle powdered sugar on the cakes, and bake from twelve to sixteen minutes in a very slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 162. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lady-Fingers. Four eggs, three-fourths of a cupful of pastry flour, half a cupful of powdered sugar

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