1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 128.

Rice-Cakes,

Beat the yolks of 15 eggs for nearly half an hour with a whisk ; mix well with them 10 ounces of fine sifted loaf sugar, put in I pound of ground rice, a little orange-water or brandy, and the rinds of 2 lemons grated; then add the whites of 7 eggs well beaten, and stir the whole together for a quarter of an hour. Put them into a hoop, and set them in a quick oven for half an hour, when they will be pro- perly done.

No. 129.

Lemon- Cakes.

No. 2.

Take 1 pound of sugar, f pound of flour, 14 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of rose-water, the raspings and juice of four lemons ; when the yolks are well beaten up and separated, add the powdered sugar, the lemon-rasping, the juice, and the rose-water; beat them well together in a pan with a round bottom, Put the paste to the whites, previously well whiskea about, and mix it very light. "When well mixed, sift in the biscuits, and bake them in small oval tins, with six sheets of paper under them, in a moderate heat. Butter the tins well, or it will prove difficult to take out the biscuits, which will be exceedingly nice if well made. Ice them previous to baking, but very lightly and even. till it becomes quite light, for half an hour.