Geneva Wafers

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Total: 25 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
for filling
Instructions (8)
  1. Well whisk the eggs.
  2. Put them into a basin, and stir to them the butter, which should be beaten to a cream.
  3. Add the flour and sifted sugar gradually, and then mix all well together.
  4. Butter a baking-sheet, and drop on it a teaspoonful of the mixture at a time, leaving a space between each.
  5. Bake in a cool oven.
  6. Watch the pieces of paste, and, when half done, roll them up like wafers, and put in a small wedge of bread or piece of wood, to keep them in shape.
  7. Return them to the oven until crisp.
  8. Before serving, remove the bread, put a spoonful of preserve in the widest end, and fill up with whipped cream.
Original Text
GENEVA WAFERS. 1431. INGREDIENTS.—2 eggs, 3 oz. of butter, 3 oz. of flour, 3 oz. of pounded sugar. Mode.—Well whisk the eggs; put them into a basin, and stir to them the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; add the flour and sifted sugar gradually, and then mix all well together. Butter a baking-sheet, and drop on it a teaspoonful of the mixture at a time, leaving a space between each. Bake in a cool oven; watch the pieces of paste, and, when half done, roll them up like wafers, and put in a small wedge of bread or piece of wood, to keep them in shape. Return them to the oven until crisp. Before serving, remove the bread, put a spoonful of preserve in the widest end, and fill up with whipped cream. This is a very pretty and ornamental dish for the supper-table, and is very nice and very easily made. Time.—Altogether 20 to 25 minutes. Average cost, exclusive of the preserve and cream, 7d. Sufficient for a nice-sized dish. Seasonable at any time.
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