Lemon Biscuits

Ingredients

• I lb. flour
• I lb. butter
• 1 lb. sugar
• 2 lemons
• 2 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into heated flour, mix in sugar and grated lemon peel.

2. 2

   Beat eggs and add to lemon juice, stir together, knead, roll out thin, cut shapes, and bake until light brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lemon biscuits, and some little drop tea-cakes, of which the description in my book is marked specially, “ This recipe is very good!' So I think I cannot do better than write out all three recipes for the benefit of other people who have birthdays. Tea-cakes. — I will begin with the little drop tea-cakes. P'or this you will need — -I lb. butter. ' 3 ozs. flour. 3 eggs. ^ lb. sifted or rolled sugar. 166 TWO ALMOND CAKES July 1 oz. almonds, bleached and pounded, 20 drops of vanilla essence to flavour. Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar next, and then the yolks of the eggs. Beat all well together. Now add the flour and other ingredients, keeping to the last the whites of the eggs well whisked. Drop little drops of the mixture on buttered paper and bake in a slow oven. Almond Cake, No. 1 (Miss Breda’s). — Ingredients — -J- lb. sweet almonds and 15 bitter almonds, all blanched and well minced. , ^ lb. flour. lb, of finely-sifted white sugar. 6 eggs, of which you beat the whites and yolks separately. Mix in the following order — first the yolks with the sugar, then add the almonds, lastly the whites and flour alternately. Butter the mould well and dust with fine flour, or dried bread-crumbs finely pounded, put buttered paper over the top. Bake the cake one hour in a slow oven as you do sponge-cake. Almond Cake, No. 2. — The other almond cake requires — 3 cupfuls of flour. 2 cupfuls of sugar. 2 well-beaten eggs. 2 tablespoonfuls of fresh butter. I cup of milk. 30 sweet almonds. 10 drops of essence of almonds. teaspoonful of soda. I teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Mix and bake ingredients same as almond cake No. i. 167 July LEMON BISCUITS. LIMPET SOUP Lemon Biscuits. — The lemon biscuits are always favourites of ours. They should not be made in a great quantity at a time, as they are best eaten quite fresh. I lb. flour. I lb. butter. 1 lb. sugar. 2 lemons. 2 eggs

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