Dessert Biscuits
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Cream the shortening and gradually add the sugar, mixing thoroughly.
Incorporate the egg whites one by one.
Add the flour, salt, and vanilla, and mix well.
Place in small, long heaps on a greased baking sheet.
Bake in a cool oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit until a pale brown color.
Original recipe, verbatim
Dessert Biscuits
1 cupful confectioners' sugar 5 whites of eggs
1 cupful Crisco }4 teaspoonful vanilla extract
1 cupful flour 1 teaspoonful salt
Cream Crisco and gradually add sugar, mix thoroughly, and incor-
porate, one by one, whites of eggs. Now add flour, salt, and vanilla.
Mix well, then place in small, long heaps on a Criscoed tin. Bake in cool
oven to pale brown color.
Sufficient for sixty biscuits.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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