Biscuit help, please.

[Workingman]

Not quite Lissie, but they look so good I will have to try them.... I have also found that tulle biscuits look similar, but are not quite the same.

[debih]

I wonder if this is it WM?

Taken from my ridiculously old Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book (inherited from Great, great aunt) - and typed exactly as written)

Dessert biscuits.

6oz flour (I assume plain)
4 oz butter
4 oz caster sugar
2 egg yolks
flavouring (ginger, cinnamon, etc)

Put the butter into a basin, warm it but do not allow it to oil; then with a wooden spoon and beat it to a cream. Add the flour by degrees, then the sugar and flavouring and moisten the whole with the yolks of the eggs, which should previously be well beaten.

When all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, drop the mixture from a spoon onto greased paper leaving a distance between each cake as they spread when they begin to warm. Bake in a rather slow oven for about 12 to 18 minutes and do not let the biscuits acquire too much colour. In making the above quantity half may be flavoured with ground ginger and the other half with essence of lemon or some currants added to make a variety.

Time about 12 to 18 minutes. Sufficient to make about a dozen.

She was no Nigella was she!!!!

[saundra]

need more than a dozen WM there are alot of us

[Workingman]

Debih, thank you, that looks close. I might have to tweak it - possibly, but it might work.

Saundra, of course I will make more than a dozen.... I'll do a Baker's dozen.