BEAT eight eggs

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time: Cook: 90 min Total: 90 min
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (8)

eight eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
a pound of loaf sugar, shake it in ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds beat fine, with orange-flower water ↝ Nuts, almonds, whole, raw [Nut and Seed Products]
orange-flower water
the rind of a lemon ↝ Lemon, raw [Citrus fruits]
the juice of the lemon ↝ Lemon juice, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
three quarters of a pound of warm dry fine flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (9)

Beat eight eggs half an hour.
Have ready pounded and sifted a pound of loaf sugar.
Shake the sugar in and beat it half an hour more.
Put to it a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds beat fine, with orange-flower water.
Grate the rind of a lemon into the almonds, and squeeze in the juice of the lemon.
Mix them all together, and keep beating them till the oven is ready.
Just before you set it in put to it three quarters of a pound of warm dry fine flour.
Rub your hoop with butter.
An hour and a half will bake it.

Original Text

BEAT eight eggs half an hour, have ready pounded and sifted a pound of loaf sugar, shake it in, and beat it half an hour more, put to it a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds beat fine, with orange-flower water, grate the rind of a lemon into the almonds, and squeeze in the juice of the lemon, mix them all together, and keep beating beating them till the oven is ready, and just before you set it in put to it three quarters of a pound of warm dry fine flour; rub your hoop with butter: an hour and a half will bake it.

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