Mrs Beetons Baking Recipes Revisited
Geneva Wafers
85g (3oz) Butter
85g (3oz) Flour
85g (3oz) Caster Sugar
2 Eggs
Whisk the eggs well.
Put them into a basin and stir in the creamed butter.
Add the flour and sugar gradually and mix together well.
Butter a baking sheet and drop on 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 [cones] 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.
Sufficient for a nice sized dish.
Seasonable at any time.
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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