The Household Management Section

We present to you, Madam, this month, three recipes for delicious biscuits, which you can make for your children and your husband; they will eat of them and thank you for them....

1 — Coconut Biscuits

Ingredients

Half a cup of margarine
A cup and a half of fine sugar
Two eggs, well beaten
Half a cup of cream, or unsweetened tinned milk
A cup and a half of grated coconut
3 teaspoons of carbonate of ammonia
The grated rind of two lemons, or a teaspoon of rose essence

Beat the margarine, then add the sugar and beat well; after that add the eggs and the grated lemon rind, then add the cream and the coconut; then add, little by little, enough flour to make the dough stiff and fit for rolling; then roll it out, cut it, and bake it, and when it browns a little take it off the fire.

2 — Tasty Biscuits

Ingredients

5 cups of flour
A cup of sugar
5 teaspoons of baking powder
Half a teaspoon of salt
A cup of butter
The whites of 6 eggs, beaten until stiff
Half a teaspoon of vanilla essence
Half a cup of unsweetened tinned milk, or cream

Mix the flour with the sugar, the baking powder, and the salt; then add the butter and rub it in; then add the egg whites blended with a little of the milk, then the essence, and enough of the milk or cream to make the dough stiff; then roll it out, cut it, and bake it.

3 — Almond Biscuits

Ingredients

An uqiyya of unroasted almonds, peeled and chopped, not too fine
An uqiyya of fine sugar
The whites of five eggs
The grated rind of a lemon

Method: Beat the almonds with the egg whites, the lemon rind, and the sugar, and grease the tray with butter. Then drop the mixture by teaspoonfuls in rounds onto the tray, and bake in the oven.