Lady Fingers

Ingredients

• Eggs, 4.
• Salt, ½ saltspoon.
• Powdered sugar, ½ cup.
• Flavoring, 1 teaspoon.
• Pastry flour, ½ cup.

Method

1. 1

   Mix as for sponge cake, drop into lady finger tins or press through a pastry tube into right shape, sprinkle over with powdered sugar and bake 12 to 15 minutes in a very slow oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mary Jane's cook book (1916) by Mary Jane, Sophie D. Coe, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LADY FINGERS. Eggs, 4. Salt, 1/2 saltspoon. Powdered sugar, l/2 cup. Flavoring, 1 teaspoon. Pastry flour, % cup. Mix as for sponge cake, drop into lady finger tins or press through a pastry tube into right shape, sprinkle over with powdered sugar and bake 12 to 15 minutes in a very slow oven. English Cook, Newtonville. HERMITS. Sugar, 11/2 cups. Spices of all kinds, l/2 teaspoon each. Molasses, y± cup. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Shortening, y2 cup. Water, 1 tablespoon. Eggs, 3. Chopped raisins, 1 cup. Flour. Mix with flour as soft as can be handled, roll out or spread out thin in a large pan. Bake in a moderate oven. F'llet Crank. BOILED MOLASSES CHIPS. Molasses, 1 pint. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Butter, y2 cup. Flour. Ginger, 1 teaspoon. Boil molasses and butter together 5 minutes, take from stove and add soda and ginger sifted with enough flour to roll out. Eoll as thin as note paper and cut in strips about 4 inches long and l1/^ inches wide. Bake in a quick oven. 88 COOKIES AND CRACKERS. OLD-FASHIONED CARAWAY COOKIES. Butter, 1 cup. Salt, y2 teaspoon. Sugar, 2 cups. Vanilla, y2 teaspoon. .Milk, % cup. Caraway seeds, 2 heaping tea- spoons. Eggs, 2. Flour, 5 cups. Baking powder, 2 teaspoons. Hub butter and sugar to a cream, add milk, beaten eggs, flour sifted with baking powder and salt, caraway seeds and vanilla. Roll out very thin and cut in fancy shapes. Bake quickly in a very hot oven. MONKEYS. Sugar, 1 cup. Soda, 1 teaspoon. Butter, 1 heaping tablespoon. Flour, 2 cups. Egg, 1. Lemon extract, 1 teaspoon. Sour milk, 2-3 cup. Raisins. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg and remaining in- gredients in order given. Drop from spoon onto buttered floured pan, press three raisins into each (2 for eyes and one for mouth) and bake till lightly browned. M. D., Fitchburg. PEANUT BUTTER DAINTIES. Peanut butter, 2 tablespoons. Flour, 1 cup. Sugar, 1 cup. Eggs, 2. Baking powder, y2 teaspoon. Rub peanut butter to a cream. Mix with sugar and flour until smooth, then add well beaten eggs and baking powder. Drop from spoon on buttered paper l/.2 in°h apart and bake in moderate oven till golden brown. COCOANUT MACAROONS. Egg whites, 4. Powdered sugar, 1 cup.

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