Lemon Fingers

Ingredients

• 6 ozs. flour
• 3 ozs. butter
• I lb. castor sugar
• ^ teaspoonful soda
• 4 teaspoonful cream of tartar
• I egg
• I lemon
• A little milk.

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, butter, and sugar until like breadcrumbs, then add soda and tartar, grated rind of lemon, and 1 teaspoonful of juice; beat egg, add the milk, and mix.

2. 2

   Pour into buttered tin and bake in hot oven for 0.5 hour.

3. 3

   Ice with water icing, half pink and other half white, after cutting cake in fingers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The St. Mungo cookery book (1904) by Jean Lambie, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON FINGERS. 6 ozs. flour. 3 ozs. butter. I lb. castor sugar. ^ teaspoonful soda. 4 teaspoonful cream of tartar. I egg. I lemon. A little milk.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.