To Make Lemon bisket [biscuit]

Item

Title

To Make Lemon bisket [biscuit]

Date

1694/1795

Transcript

[left margin: 309] Rx half a pound of floure 3 quarters of a pound of suger searced, cut some lemon peill small & mingle with the floure & suger then take 7 eggs & 4 of the whites whisk them up with the Juce of a lemon & as your froth riseth mix it with your Flour & suger so beat them a bout an houre then drop them on butered papers or plates and bake them in a gentele oven you must sift some floure & suger on them be fore thay be set in to the oven remember that the egs are all to be Bet to froth & so taken of & put in to the floor

Contributor

Grimm, Stephanie
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.