Othellos and Desdemonas

The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bre... · Beaty-Pownall, S · 1904
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The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bread, cakes, and biscuits
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  1. Cream 4oz. fresh butter (or use rather less clotted cream) with 1/2lb. caster sugar (previously beaten with four well-beaten egg yolks) till light.
  2. Stir in, in alternate spoonfuls, 1lb. of fine flour, previously sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder, and the stiffly-whipped whites of the eggs.
  3. Bake this paste in very small buttered patty pans, or little bouche moulds, for twelve to fifteen minutes.
  4. When perfectly cold mask half the number with vanilla chocolate, just enough melted to pour, and the other half with royal icing, or any white, flavoured glace.
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Othellos and Desdemonas.—Cream 4oz. fresh butter (or use rather less clotted cream) with ½lb. caster sugar (previously beaten with four well-beaten egg yolks) till light, then stir in, in alternate spoonfuls, 1lb. of fine flour, previously sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder, and the stiffly-whipped whites of the eggs. Bake this paste in very small buttered patty pans, or little bouche moulds, for twelve to fifteen minutes, and when perfectly cold mask half the number with vanilla chocolate, just enough melted to pour, and the other half with royal icing, or any white, flavoured glace.
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