Chapter 673 of 841
ARROWROOT BISCUITS OR DROPS.
The Book of Household Management · Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
1738. INGREDIENTS.—1/2 lb. of butter, 6 eggs, 1/2 lb. of flour, 6 oz. of arrowroot, 1/2 lb. of pounded loaf sugar.
Mode.—Beat the butter to a cream; whisk the eggs to a strong froth, add them to the butter, stir in the flour a little at a time, and beat the mixture well. Break down all the lumps from the arrowroot, and add that with the sugar to the other ingredients. Mix all well together, drop the dough on a buttered tin, in pieces the size of a shilling, and bake the biscuits about 1/4 hour in a slow oven.
Time.—1/4 hour.
Average cost, 2s. 6d.
Sufficient to make from 3 to 4 dozen biscuits.
Seasonable at any time.