Lowney’s – Lady Fingers

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• ¾ cup powdered sugar (approx. 94g)
• 1 cup flour (approx. 120g)
• grated rind 1 lemon
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Method

1. Beat yolks until lemon-colored and thick; add sugar and continue beating.
2. Add lemon rind and the egg whites, beaten to a stiff froth.
3. Cut and fold in the flour and salt.
4. Shape on buttered sheet, using tablespoon or pastry bag and tube, four inches long and one inch wide.
5. Sprinkle thickly with powdered sugar.
6. Bake twelve minutes in a moderately hot oven.
7. Sponge Drops – Use rule for Lady Fingers. Drop from a tablespoon in rounds the size of a silver dollar on buttered sheet. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake as Lady Fingers.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard