Plumbe's Arrowroot Biscuits

Ingredients

• three-quarters of a pound of sugar
• the same weight of butter
• three eggs
• four tablespoonfuls of arrowroot
• two cups of sifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Rub together sugar and butter until they rise; beat eggs and mix with these ingredients.

2. 2

   Stir in arrowroot and flour.

3. 3

   Roll out, cut with a pastry cutter, place in buttered tins, and bake in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1258. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plumbe's Arrowroot Biscuits.— Rub together three-quarters of a pound of sugar and the same weight of butter until they rise ; beat three eggs well mixed with these ingredients, then stii' in four table-si^oonfuls of arrowroot and two cups of sifted flour. Roll the mixture out, cut the biscuits with a pastry cutter, place them in buttered tins, and bake in a slow oven. Probable cost, Plumbe's arrowroot. Is. 6d. per pound. Plumbe's Arrow;root Blanc-Mange. — Take one quart of milk, and mix with it four ounces, or four table-spoonfuls, of arrowroot, flavour to taste, and boil the whole for four minutes, stirring all the time. Allow the blanc- mange to cool in a mould, and send milk and jell}", or milk and sugar, to table with it. Probable cost, Plumbe's arrowroot, Is. 6d. per pound. Plumbe's Arrowroot Breakfast- Cakes. — Mix together two cupfuls of arrow- root and half a cupful of flour, add a table- spoonful of salt butter, one egg, and as much milk or water as will bring the whole to the consistency of paste. RoU out the paste, cut it with a breakfast-cup, and put the cakes in a baking-iron. They vdll be baked enough in a few minutes. Split and butter them, and send them to table hot. Probable cost, Plumbe's arrowroot, Is. 6d. per poimd. Plumbe's Arrowroot Cream.— Take one ounce of arrowroot, one quart of milk, and three ounces of lump sugar. Mix the arrowroot with a little cold milk and the yolk of an egg, stirring it well and breaking the lumps. Boil the milk with the peel of a lemon and a little cinnamon, sweetening it with the sugar ; pour it boiling hot over tlie arrowroot, stir well till cold, pour into glasses, and serve. Plumbe's Arrowroot Custard. — Take one quart of milk, mix with it two ounces of arrowroot, one or two eggs well beaten, and add a little butter and four table-spoonfuls of sugar. Flavour to taste. Boil the custard four minutes, pour it into a pie-dish, and brown before the fire. This is an exquisite delicacy. Plumbe's Arrowroot Custard Pud- ding.— Beat up two or thi-ee eggs with a smaU dessert-spoonful of arrowroot ; sweeten with loaf-sugar, and add seven di'ops of essence of almonds. Pour on this mixture a pint of boil- ing milk — take care that the milk really boils — and bake inimediately for half an hour in a quick oven. Plumbe's Arrowroot Gruel.— Take a dessert-spoonful of aiTowroot, and mix with it a wine-glassful of cold water. Pour on this a pint of boiling water ; sweeten with moist sugar, flavour with a little nutmeg, let the gruel simmer on the fire for five minutes, and ! then add a table-s230onful of brandy. I Plumbe's Arrowroot Jelly (Invalid I Cookeky).— This is a nutritious and restoring PLU (594 POE jelly for invalids. Mix in a tumbler a piled tea-spoonful of arrowroot with a little cold water; pour upon it sufficient boiling water to form a clear jelly, stirring well Avhilst the water is being pom-ed on it ; last of all add a glassful of sherry. Plumbe's Arrowroot Omelet.— Beat up two eggs, and nrix with them one table- spoonful of arrowroot and a tea-cupful of milk ; add a little pepper and salt, and sugar, if pre- ferred ; thi-ow the whole into a flat saucepan, previously well heated, and covered with melted butter. Keep the saucepan in motion over the fu-e, then turn the omelet several times ; roll it up, and keep it in motion till it is slightly browned. Probable cost, Plumbe's arrowroot, Is. 6d. 23er pound. Plumbe's Arrowroot Pudding, Baked. — Take about four table-spoonfuls of arrowroot

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