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Love Wells

2 ozs. (4 tablespoonfuls) butter 2 ozs. (4 tablespoonfuls) sugar I large beaten egg 1/2 pint (I cup) flour 1/2 teaspoonful baking powder Red currant jelly Blanched and chopped pistachio nuts Cakes Cream the butter with the sugar; add the egg, beat well, then add the flour and baking powder.

Knead on a floured baking board and roll out oneeighth of an inch thick; stamp out some rounds with a cutter. When the mixture has all been cut out into these rounds take half of them, and, with a smaller cutter, take out the centers, so as to form rings. Wet these rings and place them on the top of the plain rounds; put them on a buttered tin and bake in a moderate oven for ten minutes. When done, take them up and let them cool; then fill the center of each with red currant jelly. Sprinkle over with the pistachio nuts. Love wells, or Gâteaux de Putis d'Amour, are dainty jam tarts, with a rather ambitious title, and an example of what the French ladies used to call chatteries, i. e., delicacies for company.

They were much in use at the end of the seventeenth century.