¹⁄₂ lb. flour
2 eggs
¹⁄₄ lb. butter
¹⁄₄ lb. powdered sugar
A small tea-spoonful baking powder
A small wine-glass of sherry
Put the flour, sugar and baking powder into a basin and stir well together. Rub in the butter and add the well beaten eggs. Mix with the wine into a paste just firm enough to roll out on a paste-board. Cut out in little rounds with a small wine-glass. Bake on a floured tin until a delicate colour, like nicely baked pastry.
*Little Dutch Cakes
4 ozs. butter
4 ozs. white sugar
4 ozs. flour
Vanilla
2 yolks
1 white of egg
1 oz. almonds blanched and chopped
Mix the butter and sugar thoroughly together. Add the flour. Flavour with a few drops of vanilla. Beat the yolks and add them to the mixture. Roll out the paste. Shape it into rings. Dip each in the white of egg and sprinkle over them the chopped almonds.
Louisa Cakes
3 oz. cornflour
3 oz. flour
4 ozs. butter
3 eggs
4 ozs. powdered sugar
1 tea-spoon baking powder
Beat the butter to a cream and add the sugar. Then add one egg at a time, beating thoroughly. Stir in the flour (in which the baking powder has been mixed) and beat well. Bake in greased patty pan in a quick oven from 15 to 20 minutes. Ice when nearly cold with plain icing, [p. 65], and ornament with crystallised cherries.
Macaroons
1 lb. sweet almonds
10 bitter almonds
Whites of eight eggs
1 tea-spoon arrowroot