American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Geneva Wafers

Original Recipe

Two eggs, three ounces of butter, three ounces of flour, three ounces of pounded sugar. Well whisk the eggs, put them into a basin and stir to them the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; add the flour and sifted sugar gradually, and then mix all well together. Butter a baking sheet, and drop on it a teaspoonful of the mixture at a time, leaving a space between each. Bake in a cool oven; watch the pieces of paste, and, when half done, roll them up like wafers and put in a small wedge of bread or piece of wood, to keep them in shape. Return them to the oven until crisp. Before serving, remove the bread, put a spoonful of preserve in the widest end, and fill up with whipped cream. This is a very pretty and ornamental dish for the supper-table, and is very nice and very easily made.

Ingredients

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  • 2 eggs
  • 3 ounces of butter
  • 3 ounces of flour
  • 3 ounces of pounded sugar
  • 1 basin and stir to them the butter
  • 10 to a cream
  • 1 baking sheet
  • 1 teaspoonful of the mixture at a time
  • 1 space between each
  • 1 cool oven
  • 1 small wedge of bread or piece of wood
  • 1 spoonful of preserve in the widest end

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Two eggs, three ounces of butter, three ounces of flour, three ounces of pounded sugar.

  2. 2

    Well whisk the eggs, put them into a basin and stir to them the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; add the flour and sifted sugar gradually, and then mix all well together.

  3. 3

    Butter a baking sheet, and drop on it a teaspoonful of the mixture at a time, leaving a space between each.

  4. 4

    Bake in a cool oven; watch the pieces of paste, and, when half done, roll them up like wafers and put in a small wedge of bread or piece of wood, to keep them in shape.

  5. 5

    Return them to the oven until crisp.

  6. 6

    Before serving, remove the bread, put a spoonful of preserve in the widest end, and fill up with whipped cream.

  7. 7

    This is a very pretty and ornamental dish for the supper-table, and is very nice and very easily made.

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