868. Cream Biscuits

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (6)
  1. Rub one pound of fresh butter into one pound of flour.
  2. Make a hole in the centre, into which put half a pound of powdered sugar upon which the rind of a lemon was rubbed previously to pounding, and three whole eggs.
  3. Mix the eggs well with the sugar, and then mix all together, forming a flexible paste.
  4. Cut it into round pieces each nearly as large as a walnut.
  5. Stamp them flat with a butter-stamp of the size of a crown-piece.
  6. Bake them in a slack oven.
Original Text · last edited 14 days ago
868. Cream Biscuits.—Rub one pound of fresh butter into one pound of flour, make a hole in the centre, into which put half a pound of powdered sugar upon which the rind of a lemon was rubbed previously to pounding, and three whole eggs, mix the eggs well with the sugar, and then mix all together, forming a flexible paste; cut it into round pieces each nearly as large as a walnut, stamp them flat with a butter-stamp of the size of a crown-piece, and bake them in a slack oven.
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