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Lady’s-Finger Biscuit Paste

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 4

To shape the biscuits, put the paste into a canvas piping-bag, fitted with a pipe of one-half inch bore. Lay the biscuits on sheets of strong paper; sprinkle them with powdered sugar.

Presented as published in 1909. 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 A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 402. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LADY’S-FINGER BISCUIT PASTE Stir one lb. of sugar and sixteen egg-yolks in a basin until the preparation has whitened slightly and has reached the ribbon stage. Now add a tablespoonful of orange-flower water ; mix therewith twelve oz. of sifted flour, followed by sixteen egg-whites

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