Queen's Drops

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pound of butter
• a quarter of a pound of sifted sugar
• two eggs
• six ounces of flour
• Flavor with almonds, or vanilla, or lemon.

Method

1. 1

   Beat up the butter and sugar, add the eggs and flour.

2. 2

   Flavor with almonds, vanilla, or lemon.

3. 3

   Butter some paper, place it on baking-sheet or pans, and drop the mixture in drops about the size of a nutmeg.

4. 4

   Bake in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a quarter of a pound of butter, and a quarter of a pound of sif ted sugar, two eggs, and six ounces of flour. Flavor with almonds, or yanilla, or lemon.

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