Nibble Cakes

Ingredients

• Make a good puff paste
• brush it over with beaten yelks of eggs
• strew macaroni drops powder over them
• with a little powder of orange flowers
• and lemon peel chopped very fine
• stick bits of scalded sweet almonds in the paste pointed upwards

Method

1. 1

   Roll the puff paste thick and cut into lozenges about the size of the palm of the hand.

2. 2

   Brush with beaten yolks of eggs, strew with macaroni drops powder, orange flower powder, and finely chopped lemon peel.

3. 3

   Stick bits of scalded sweet almonds in the paste pointed upwards and cover with paper in the oven to keep them of a palish colour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 344. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NIBBLE CAKES.— Make a good puff paste ; roll thick ; cut into lozenges about the size of the palm of the hand ; brush it over with beaten yelks of eggs and strew macaroni drops powder over them, with a little powder of orange flowers, and lemon peel chopped very fine ; stick bits of scalded sweet almonds in the paste pointed up- war

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