Beat the eggs. Add the sugar and milk. Add flour (with which the baking powder should be mixed) until the batter is stiff enough for the spoon to stand upright in. Beat until very light. Drop by dessert-spoonfuls into boiling lard.
Snowballs
1 cup powdered sugar
4 table-spoons milk
¹⁄₃ tea-spoon soda
³⁄₄ tea-spoon cream of tartar
2 eggs
Flour
Mix the soda with the milk and the cream of tartar with the flour (sufficient to make a stiff batter). Beat the egg, add the rest of the ingredients, and beat until light. Make into small balls. Fry in lard. When cold, dip in the beaten white of an egg and roll in powdered sugar.
Little Cakes and Sweet Biscuits
Almond Cakes
¹⁄₂ lb. sweet almonds
1 white of egg
¹⁄₂ lb. powdered sugar
¹⁄₂ lb. butter
³⁄₄ lb. flour
2 eggs
1 tea-spoon ground cinnamon
Blanch and pound the almonds, adding the beaten whites and mixing well together. Add them to the rest of the ingredients and knead well together with the hands. Roll out and cut into round cakes. Brush over with the beaten yolk of an egg, and dust with powdered sugar. Bake on a well greased tin in a slow oven until they are a rich yellow.