48. Bachelor’s Buttons.
6-oz. butter.
3 yolks and 2 whites of eggs.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
½-lb. castor sugar.
15-oz. flour.
½ teaspoonful lemon essence.
Rub the butter into the flour, add the other ingredients and mix well. Divide into pieces the size of a walnut. Dip each with a fork into the third white of egg and roll in coarse sugar or finely chopped almonds or desiccated cocoanut.