This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
A lady, or, as the newspapers say, a "correspondent upon whom we can confidently rely," favours us with the following simple receipt, which, she says, gives less trouble than any other, and has never been known to fail: - Take five eggs, and half a pound of loaf-sugar sifted; break the eggs upon the sugar, and beat all together with a steel fork for half an hour. Previously take the weight of two eggs and a-half in their shells, of flour. After you have beaten the eggs and sugar the time specified, grate in the rind of a lemon (the juice may be added at pleasure), stir in the flour, and immediately pour it into a tin lined with buttered paper, and let it be instantly put into rather a cool oven.
 
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