Savoy Biscuits or Cakes

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 6 oz pounded sugar
• the rind of 1 lemon
• 6 oz flour

Instructions

1. Break the eggs into a basin, separating the whites from the yolks;
2. beat the yolks well, mix with them the pounded sugar and grated lemon-rind, and beat these ingredients together for 1/4 hour.
3. Then dredge in the flour gradually, and when the whites of the eggs have been whisked to a solid froth, stir them to the flour, &c.;
4. beat the mixture well for another 5 minutes, then draw it along in strips upon thick cartridge paper to the proper size of the biscuit, and bake them in rather a hot oven; but let them be carefully watched, as they are soon done, and a few seconds over the proper time will scorch and spoil them.
5. These biscuits, or ladies'-fingers, as they are called, are used for making Charlotte russes, and for a variety of fancy sweet dishes.