Lemon Biscuits

Ingredients

• One lb. flour
• 1/2 lb. white sugar
• 3/8 lb. fresh butter
• 1 oz. lemon peel
• 1 tablespoonful lemon juice
• 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Add the butter to the flour and rub finely with the hands; mince the lemon peel and stir it and the sugar into the former mixture; well whisk the eggs and lemon juice, and thoroughly mix the whole.

2. 2

   Drop from a spoon to a greased baking-tin about 2 inches apart.

3. 3

   Bake for 20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. white sugar, }4, butter, whites of 14 eggs, 1 tablespoonful cream tartar mixed with flour. Bread and Cakes. 171 When the cake is mixed, take out about a teacupful of batter and stir into it 1 teaspoon- ful of cinnamon, 1 of mace, 1 of cloves, 2 of spice and 1 of nutmeg. Fill your mould about an inch deep with the white batter, and drop into this, in several places, a spoonful of the dark mixture; then put in another layer of white, and add the dark as before; repeat this until your batter is used up. This makes one large cake. Corn-Starch Cake — Four eggs, whites only; 1 cup butter, % cup corn-starch, i-^ cup sweet milk, 1 cup flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder, lemon or rosewater flavoring. Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly either with the hand or a silver spoon; mix the corn- starch with the milk and add; then add the eggs, beaten stiff, next the sifted flour, into which the baking-powder has been stirred. Put into well greased mould and bake. Cracknels — One qt. flour, i^ nutmeg, 4 eggs, 4 spoonfuls rosewater, 1 lb. butter. Mix the flour, the nutmeg, grated, the yolks of the eggs, beaten, and the rosewater, into a stiff paste with cold water; then roll in the butter and make into cracknel shape; put them into a kettle of boiling water, and boil them till they swim; then take them out, and put them into cold water; when hardened, lay them out to dry and bake on tin plates. Lemon Biscuits — One lb. flour, % lb. white sugar, 3€ lb* fi^esh butter, 1 oz. lemon peel, 1 tablespoonful lemon juice, 3 eggs

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