Mrs Beetons Baking Recipes Revisited
Dessert Biscuits
(Which may be flavoured with Ground Ginger, Cinnamon, etc.)
450g (1lb) Flour
225g (8oz) Butter
225g (8oz) Caster Sugar
6 Egg Yolks
Flavouring, to taste
Put the butter into a basin, warm, but do not allow it to oil.
Beat it to a cream.
Add the flour gradually, then add the sugar and flavouring.
Moisten with the egg yolks, which should previously be well beaten.
When all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, drop the mixture from a spoon on to a buttered paper, leaving a distance between each cake, as they spread as soon as they begin to get warm.
Bake in rather a slow oven from 12 to 18 minutes and do not let the biscuits acquire too much colour.
In making the above quantity, half may be flavoured with ground ginger and the other half with lemon essence or currants, to make a variety.
With whatever the preparation is flavoured, so are the biscuits called and an endless variety may be made in this manner.
Time: 12 to 18 minutes, or rather longer, in a very slow oven.
Sufficient to make from 3 to 4 dozen cakes.
Seasonable at any time.
DESSERT BISCUITS which may be flavoured with Ground Ginger, Cinnamon, &c. &c.
1742. INGREDIENTS - 1 lb. of flour, 1/2 lb. of butter, 1/2 lb. of sifted sugar, the yolks of 6 eggs, flavouring to taste.
Mode - Put the butter into a basin; warm it, but do not allow it to oil; then with the hand beat it to a cream. Add the flour by degrees, then the sugar and flavouring, and moisten the whole with the yolks of the eggs, which should previously be well beaten. When all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, drop the mixture from a spoon on to a buttered paper, leaving a distance between each cake, as they spread as soon as they begin to get warm. Bake in rather a slow oven from 12 to 18 minutes, and do not let the biscuits acquire too much colour. In making the above quantity, half may be flavoured with ground ginger and the other half with essence of lemon or currants, to make a variety. With whatever the preparation is flavoured, so are the biscuits called; and an endless variety may be made in this manner.
Time - 12 to 18 minutes, or rather longer, in a very slow oven.
Average cost, 1s. 6d.
Sufficient to make from 3 to 4 dozen cakes.
Seasonable at any time.
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