Orange Biscuits

Ingredients

• i lb. flour
• half lb. sugar
• Teaspoonful Elliott's Queensland baking powder
• J lb. butter
• 6 eggs
• 1 orange
• 2 ozs. candied orange peel

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, add the beaten yolks of the eggs, grate in the rind of the orange, finely chop and add the candied lemon peel; stir in the flour and baking powder sifted, and lastly stir in quickly the whites of the eggs, which have been beaten to a stiff froth.

2. 2

   Have ready buttered, some tiny biscuit tins, half fill these and bake for ten or fifteen minutes in a moderate oven, bake a pretty bright brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OEANGE BISCUITS. i lb. flour ^ lb. sugar Teaspoonful Elliott's Queens- land baking powder J lb. butter 6 eggs 1 orange 2 ozs. candied orange peel

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.