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Diet Bread.
One pound sugar, nine eggs, beat for an hour, add to fourteen ounces, flour, one
spoon rose water, one do. cinnamon or coriander, bake quick.
Lemon Biscuit.
Beat the yolks of ten eggs and the whites of five well together, with four
spoonfuls of orange flower water, till they of a high froth, then put in in a
pound of double refined sugar beat and sifted, beat it one way for three
quarters of an hour; put in half a pound of flour, and grate in the rind of two
lemons, and put in the pulp of a small one, beat them well; butter your tin
moulds and put it in, sift a little fine sugar over them and put them in a quick
oven, but do not stop the mouth up at first for fear they should scroch.
Spunge Biscuit.
Beat the yolks of twelve eggs for half an hour, then put in a pound and an half
of fine sugar beat and sifted, whisk it well till you see it rise in bubbles,
then beat the whites to a strong froth, and whisk them well with your sugar and
yolks; beat in a pound of flour, with the rind of two lemons grated, butter your
tin moulds, put them in, and sift fine powder sugar over them; put them in a hot
oven, but do not stop the mout of it at first; they will take half an hour
baking.
Biscuit.
One pound flour, one ounce butter, one egg, wet with milk, and break while the
oven is heating, and in the same proportion.
Butter Biscuit.
One pint of each milk and emptins, laid into flour, in sponges; next morning add
one pound butter melted, not hot, and knead into as much flour as will with
another pint of warmed milk, be of a sufficient consistance to make it
soft--some melt the butter in the milk.
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