Lemon Wafers

Ingredients

• two eggs
• 3 table-spoonfuls of caster sugar
• 3 table-spoonfuls of flour
• the juice of one Lemon
• the grated peel of half a Lemon

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs for half an hour, mix with sugar, flour, lemon juice, and peel.

2. 2

   Spread thin cakes on a buttered baking-sheet, bake until lightly coloured, then roll them around a wooden spoon handle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 324. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

J table-spoonfuls of flour J table-spoonful of caster sugar, and the grated rind of one Lemon. Mix the above ingredients to a smooth batter, adding a little milk, then stir in two well-beaten eggs and 2oz. of butter warmed and beaten to a cream. Butter some tin patty-pans, pour in the mixture, and bake for twenty minutes in a quick oven. When baked, take out of the tins, put them on a folded napkin on a dish, sprinkle caster sugar over, and serve. Lemon Wafers. — (1) Beat two eggs for about half-an-hour, then mix with them 3 table-spoonfuls each of caster sugar and flour, the juice of one Lemon, and the grated peel of half a Lemon

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