Majesty Biscuits

Ingredients

• two ounces of bitter almonds
• two ounces of sweet almonds
• a pound of flour
• the same quantity of butter
• one pound of crushed lump sugar
• one egg

Method

1. 1

   Pound well and blanch the almonds.

2. 2

   Rub the butter into the flour, add the sugar and pounded almonds, and moisten with the egg.

3. 3

   Drop the mixture on a buttered tin in pieces not larger than a Barcelona nut, and bake in a slow oven until pale yellow.

4. 4

   They will harden when cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 887. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Majesty Biscuits. — Pound well and blanch two ounces of bitter and two ounces of sweet abnonds. Rub into a pound of flour the same quantity of butter, add one pound of crushed lump sugar, and the pounded almonds, and moisten the whole with one egg

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