To Make Lemon bisket

Title: To Make Lemon bisket
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for baking lemon biscuits using flour, sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and eggs.
Transcript: [left margin: 309] Rx half a pound of floure 3 quarters of a pound of suger searc'd, 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
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Contributor: Grimm, Stephanie
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.