Mater's Biscuits

Ingredients

• Half lb. flour
• ½ lb. butter
• ½ lb. castor sugar
• 2 oz. sweet almonds
• 1 oz. loaf sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoonful essence Vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar with a wooden spoon.

2. 2

   Add the egg and the flour gradually; turn out on the slab; knead a few minutes; roll out a quarter of an inch thick; cut out with fancy cutters; brush over with egg, and sprinkle thickly with the almonds, blanched and chopped, and the loaf sugar broken into tiny bits.

3. 3

   Bake on a floured baking sheet in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Cameron's cookery book (1898) by Ida Cameron, page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. butter. Mix the flour and Florador in a basin. Add the sugar, rub the butter in till the whole forms a stiff paste. Knead a little, then roll out half an inch thick. Cut in rounds, and bake in a moderate oven. Fasten a piece of cartridge paper round each piece to keep it in shape. Mater's Biscuits. Half lb. flour, \ lb. butter, J lb. castor sugar, 2 oz. sweet almonds, 1 oz. loaf sugar, 1 egg, £ teaspoonful essence Vanilla

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