Lemon Turnovers

Ingredients

• Rub 1 oz. of loaf sugar
• upon the rind of a lemon
• dissolve it in two table-spoonfuls of milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub 1 oz. of loaf sugar upon the rind of a lemon.

2. 2

   Crush it, and dissolve it in two tablespoons of milk.

3. 3

   Add three dessert-spoonfuls of flour, 2 ozs. of clarified butter, and two well-beaten eggs.

4. 4

   Stir all over the fire for a minute.

5. 5

   Take 1 lb. of good pastry; divide it into six or eight pieces, and roll each piece out to a round shape, about the size of a saucer.

6. 6

   Spread a little of the mixture on one half of the round, fold the other half over, fasten the edges securely, and bake on a buttered tin in a moderate oven.

7. 7

   Before serving, sift a little sugar over the turnovers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 289. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon Turnovers. — Rub I oz. of loaf sugar upon the rind of a lemon. Crush it, and dissolve it in two table- spoonfuls of mil

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