Lemon Biscuits

Ingredients

• Half a pound of fresh butter
• one pound of flour
• half a pound of pounded sugar
• the grated rind of a large lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the flour by degrees, and lastly the lemon-peel; when thoroughly mixed, roll out the dough very thin.

2. 2

   Stamp out the biscuits with a round fluted cutter, and bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads (1889) by Practical housewife, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Half a pound of fresh butter, one pound of flour, half a pound of pounded sugar, the grated rind of a large lemon

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