Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
What these numbers assume — 4 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 6 drops essence of lemon
- 2 lbs
- 3 eggs
- 2 ozs
- 2 eggs
- 4 table-spoonfuls of milk
- 4 eggs
- cinnamon
Directions
almonds and loaf sugar chopped small, slightly press'them, turn them over, place upon tins, and bake in a hot oven. "
Derby Biscuits.
2 lbs. flour, 1 lb. butter, 1 \ lb. sugar, 3 eggs, 6 drops essence of lemon, £ lb. currants, and enough milk to make it into a smooth dough. Mix same as for rice-biscuits; roll and cut out with a fluted cutter, and bake in a hot oven. This dough will form a good basis for several sorts and shapes, etc. When mixed, divide it into three or more parts, flavour with cinnamon, lemon, vanilla, and some with currants, cut each sort out with different shaped cutters, ornament some with neatly cut pieces of angelica, and some with " hundreds and thousands," those minute sweets of our childhood's days.
Lemon Drops.
\\ lb. flour, \ lb. butter, 1 lb. 2 ozs. sugar, 2 eggs, 6 drops essence of lemon, piece of volatile as big as a bean dissolved in about 4 table-spoonfuls of milk, or enough to make a smooth dough. Mix as for rice-biscuits, etc. When mixed, take a piece of the dough, lay it upon the board, fold it over, and roll it with the hand backwards and forwards upon the board until about the thickness of a man's thumb, then cut it into pieces about half an inch, place them upon tins upon the cut part, wash over with milk, and bake in a cool oven.
Shrewsbury Biscuits.
2 lbs. flour, ij lb. butter, 1 \ lb. castor sugar, 4 eggs, pinch of powdered cinnamon, gill of milk. Rub the butter and flour together, add sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and milk; make into a smooth dough, roil thin, cut out with a fluted cutter, bake on tins in a sharp oven.
Small Napoleons.
1 lb. butter, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. eggs, 2\ lbs. flour, \ lb. currants, \ pint milk, 2 ozs. chopped almonds, 1 oz. baking-powder, cream up as for cake ; put a spoonful into long oval tins (small), chopped almonds on top, bake in quick oven.
Rich Cocoanut Biscuits*
1 lb. desiccated cocoanut, 1 lb. sugar, 2 ozs. flour. Make into soft paste with white of egg ; don't work much ; run from savoy bag upon wafer paper; mix with wooden spoons; bake in a cool oven.
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*o8 THE BAKERS' GUIDE.