Tea Cakes (Excellent Tea Biscuits) (Miss Becker's Recipe.)

Instructions

1. Have these ingredients ready: 1 lb. of crystallised sugar; 3 eggs; flour; butter; pounded rock ammonia; vanilla essence.
2. Beat the butter to a cream with the sugar, then add the whites and the vanilla.
3. Mix the ammonia dry with the flour, then mix all well together, like dough for bread.
4. Roll pieces of the dough between the hands, and cut with a knife to the size of a pigeon's egg.
5. Bake in a quick oven for fifteen minutes.