Recipe: Savory Biscuits or Lady Fingers

Put nine tablespoonfuls of fine white sugar into a bowl and put the bowl into hot water to heat the sugar; when the sugar is thoroughly heated, break nine eggs into the bowl and beat them quickly until they become a little warm and rather thick; then take the bowl from the water and continue beating until it is nearly or quite cold; now stir in lightly nine tablespoonfuls of sifted flour; then with a paper funnel, or something of the kind, lay this mixture out upon papers, in BISCUITs three inches long and half an inch thick, in the form of fingers; sift sugar over the BISCUITs and bake them upon tins to a light brown; when they are done and cold, remove them from the papers, by wetting them on the back; dry them and they are ready for use. They are often used in making Charlotte Russe.

The Whitehouse Cookbook, by Mrs. F.L. Gillette (Year 1887)


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Source: Barry J. Ewell