Melton Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• grated rind of 1 lemon
• 4 ozs. ground rice
• 4 ozs. sugar
• 4 ozs. dessicated cocoanut
• grated rind of 1 orange
• 4 eggs
• i- lb. butter
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• strips of lemon peel

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour, rice, sugar, orange rind, lemon rind, and cocoanut together.

2. 2

   Whisk up the eggs.

3. 3

   Melt the butter and pour it into the flour mixture.

4. 4

   Add the whisked eggs and mix all to a dough.

5. 5

   Roll this out to about one-eighth inch in thickness and stamp it out into biscuits with a plain cutter 2 inches diameter.

6. 6

   Put these on a baking sheet, stick a strip of lemon peel on each, and bake in a moderate oven (375° F.) for ten minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Sea Cookery (1911) by Richard Bond, page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MELTON BISCUITS. 1 lb. flour grated rind of 1 lemon 4 ozs. ground rice 4 ozs. sugar 4 ozs. dessicated cocoanut grated rind of 1 orange 4 eggs i- lb. butter 1 teaspoonful baking powder strips of lemon peel

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