Patience

Ingredients

• Nine whites of eggs
• 1 lb. sugar
• 1 lb. flour

Method

1. 1

   Beat the egg whites until stiff, then gradually add the sugar.

2. 2

   Fold in the flour and shape into twisted fingers.

3. 3

   Bake until golden.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical cookery guide (1913) by E. Seurre, page 171. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lib. flour, rum. Patience — Nine whites of eggs beaten with lib. sugar, add lib. flour and baked finger shape, twisted, whilst hot, corkscrew shape. Petits Polonais — Square of puff paste, corners folded to centre, egged and baked, garnished with red currant jelly. Polonais — lib. almonds pounded with orangeflower water, add lib. sugar, sixteen yolks, lib. flour and sixteen whipped whites, vanilla icing. Pompadour — Genoise cake filled with apricot jam and pralines. Prince de Galles — Flan filled with almond cream, baked, and decorated with Chantilly cream, Prince of Wales’s feathers. Quillet — Genoise cake filled with almond cream masked with Chantilly cream, decorated. Beligieuse — Dartois with puree of apple filling, red currant jelly icing. Ricliebourg — Jib. of almonds pounded with ten whites, lib. sugar, Jib. warmed butter, kirsch and angelica, baked in lined flan rings, apricot and vanilla icing. Richelieu — lib. sugar beaten with sixteen yolks, fib. ground almonds, fib. flour, sixteen whipped whites, baked ; when cold, masked with vanilla icing. Entremets (Sweets). 455 Sramois — lib. butter beaten with eight eggs, lib. sugar

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