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Kisses

Ingredients

• 1 pound of the best loaf-sugar
• whites of 8 eggs
• juice of 2 lemons or 10 drops of essence of lemon

Instructions

Powder the loaf-sugar. Beat to a strong froth the whites of the eggs, and when it is stiff enough to stand alone, beat into it the powdered sugar, (a tea spoonful at a time,) adding the lemon juice or essence of lemon. Having beaten the whole very hard, drop it in oval or egg-shaped heaps upon sheets of white paper, smoothing them with the spoon and making them of a handsome and regular form. Place them in a moderate oven, (if it is too cool they will not rise, but will flatten and run into each other,) and bake them till coloured of a very pale brown. Then take them off the papers very carefully, place two bottoms (or flat sides) together, so as to unite them in an oval ball, and lay them on their sides to cool. To manage them properly requires so much practice and dexterity, that it is best, when practicable, to procure kisses from a confectioner's shop.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).