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Ratafia Biscuits

A historical recipe from The Housekeeper's Valuable Present, by Abbot, Robert, cook.

A historical recipe

The Housekeeper's Valuable Present; Or, Lady's Closet Companion Being a New and Complete Art of Preparing Confects, According to Modern Practice, by Abbot, Robert, cook. Project Gutenberg eBook #58663.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The Housekeeper's Valuable Present, by Abbot, Robert, cook. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #58663 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58663). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. TAKE half a pound of sweet almonds, and half a pound of bitter: pound them fine, mixed with whites of eggs, then add two pounds and a half of sugar;
  2. beat it up well with whites of eggs, then drop them on paper, and bake them in a slow oven.