PEACH BISCUITS

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (6)
  1. Prepare some butter as directed for fingers (No. 1276), and, with this, proceed to form some small round biscuits (using a biscuit-forcer for that purpose) on a baking, or sheet of paper; if the former, it must be previously buttered and floured;
  2. shake some sugar over the biscuits, and bake them of a very light colour;
  3. when they are done, and removed from the baking-sheet or paper, spread the under parts with some kind of preserved fruit (peach marmalade being most appropriate;)
  4. stick two of these together, thus forming as nearly as possible the shape and size of a peach
  5. these must now be very thinly covered all over with some white icing, which, when dry, must be very slightly brushed over with a soft pencil-brush dipped in a very small quantity of carmine, thereby giving to the cake merely a tinge of colour similar to that displayed by the ripe peach.
  6. These cakes may be dished up with whipped cream in the centre of the dish.
Original Text
PEACH BISCUITS. PREPARE some butter as directed for fingers (No. 1276), and, with this, proceed to form some small round biscuits (using a biscuit-forcer for that purpose) on a baking, or sheet of paper; if the former, it must be previously buttered and floured; shake some sugar over the biscuits, and bake them of a very light colour; and, when they are done, and removed from the baking-sheet or paper, spread the under parts with some kind of preserved fruit (peach marmalade being most appropriate;) stick two of these together, thus forming as nearly as possible the shape and size of a peach, these must now be very thinly covered all over with some white icing, which, when dry, must be very slightly brushed over with a soft pencil-brush dipped in a very small quantity of carmine, thereby giving to the cake merely a tinge of colour similar to that displayed by the ripe peach. These cakes may be dished up with whipped cream in the centre of the dish.
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