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Dessert Biscuits

Whip half a pound of good fresh butter to a cream. If the weather be cold, place it beside the fire before commencing operations, but it should not oil. Stir in gradually one pound of flour and half a pound of sugar, then add the flavouring of lemon, ratafia, cinnamon, etc., and lastly, mix all together with the beaten yolks of half a dozen eggs. Butter a paper and lay it over a cake tin, drop some of the mixture on it at equal distances, so separating the biscuits that they may have space to spread, which they will do as soon as they get warm. See that the oven is not too hot, and that they do not get highly coloured. Time, twelve to eighteen minutes. Probable cost, 1s. 6d.