1510 | Patience Cakes à la Mrs. General Sheridan.
—Place in a vessel half a pound of powdered sugar, half a pound of flour, crack in three and a half eggs—no more and no less—and pour in a teaspoonful of anisette essence, and then with the spatula thoroughly mix for ten minutes. Slide a tube (No. 2) into the pastry bag (No. 1079), transfer the preparation into it; butter and flour two pastry baking-pans; take hold of the bag and press down the preparation into each pan, into small round forms the size of twenty-five-cent pieces, keeping them half an inch apart from one another, and when done lay on shelves, in a dry place, for twenty-four hours. Place them in the hot oven to bake for fifteen minutes; take from out the oven, lay the pans on a table, and let cool off for thirty minutes; place them in a glass jar and serve when desired.