Cocoa-Nut Biscuits or Cakes

Origin: London, England

Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Whisk the eggs until they are very light;
  2. add the sugar gradually;
  3. then stir in the cocoa-nut.
  4. Roll a tablespoonful of the paste at a time in your hands in the form of a pyramid;
  5. place the pyramids on paper, put the paper on tins, and bake the biscuits in rather a cool oven until they are just coloured a light brown.

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