Arrowroot Biscuits or Drops

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb butter
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 lb flour
• 6 oz arrowroot
• 1/2 lb pounded loaf sugar

Instructions

1. Beat the butter to a cream;
2. 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.
3. Break down all the lumps from the arrowroot, and add that with the sugar to the other ingredients.
4. 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.