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LADIES' WINE BISCUITS (sometimes called Ladies' Lips)

Mix three ounces of ground rice and three ounces of finely-sifted sugar. Make them into a paste with three fresh eggs. Beat all thoroughly for some minutes, then spread the mixture evenly and thinly on paper, and bake on a well-oiled tin for twenty minutes. Stamp the paste into small ornamental shapes with an ordinary pastry-cutter, and spread over them a thin coating of icing, prepared as follows. Beat the white of an egg to a firm froth. Mix with it a quarter of a pound of finely-sifted sugar and as much cold water as will make it quite smooth. Colour part of this with two or three drops of cochineal. Spread a little on the top of the biscuits, and put them into a cool oven until the icing sets. Keep the biscuits in a tin box, closely covered, until wanted for use. Time, twenty minutes to bake. Probable cost, 7d. for this quantity.