Orange Crescents

Ingredients

• one-half of a pound of butter and lard
• three-fourths of a pound of sugar
• five eggs
• one-third of a pint of milk
• the juice and peel of one orange
• one pound of flour
• one-half ounce of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients, bake in medium heat, ice with orange when cold, and cut into half-moon shapes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Perfection in baking (1895) by Emil Braun, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-third of a pint of milk; mix in lightly one and one-fourth pounds of pastry flour with one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. Grease and warm large cup cake tins and fill them half full. Bake medium hot. Ice on bottom and sides with boiled cream frosting; flavor with lemon juice only. — 52 — Rook Calces. Two pounds of sugar, four pounds of flour, and two pounds of lard and butter; mix up dry. Dissolve one-half of an ounce of ammonia in one and one-half pints of milk and six eggs; flavor with lemon; mix all well and roll in long strips, one inch thick; cut in small pieces, lay out on tins, press down with fork; mix some with currants also; wash like lemon snaps. Bake at 400 degrees. ISxtrn Lemon Snaps. Two and one-half pounds of sugar and two and three-fourth pounds of pastry flour, rub dry with eighteen ounces of washed butter; mix together one pint of eggs, egg coloring, one half of an ounce of ammonia, one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Bake at 340 to 350 degrees. Lemon Snaps, Crisp. Mix three pounds of powdered sugar, one pound of butter, one- fourth of a pound of lard, two ounces of baking powder, four and one- half pounds of flour; then add ten yolks or four eggs, three-fourths of a pint of milk, one spoonful of lemon extract, one fourth of an ounce of ammonia. Wash with the following: One tablespoonful of desiccated egg food or two eggs, a little milk, one tablespoonful of cornstarch, one-half of a spoonful of salt; mix all together well. Bake at 370 degrees on ungreased tins. Orange Creseents. Line a shallow tin with paper and fill three-fourths of an inch thick with the following mixture: One-half of a pound of butter and lard, three-fourths of a pound of sugar; add slowly five eggs, one- third of a pint of milk, the juice and peel of one orange; then one pound of flour with one-half ounce of baking powder

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