Cookies Or Lady Fingers Recipe

Ingredients for Cookies Or Lady Fingers

• 6 eggs
• 1 cup and 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 2/3 cups pastry flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• Flavoring

Instructions

1. Break the eggs into a mixing bowl, add the salt, and set the bowl in a pan of hot water.
2. Beat the eggs with an egg beater till light.
3. Add the sugar, a little at a time, and beat till the batter is as stiff as it can be made.
4. Add the flavoring.
5. Fold in the flour.
6. Put the batter in a pastry bag which has been wet on the inside with cold water.
7. Oil a pan, sprinkle it lightly with flour, and with the bag put the batter onto the pan in the form of lady fingers or round cookies.
8. Cocoanut or chopped nuts or caraway seed may be sprinkled over the cookies, or a raisin may be put in the center of each, just before they are baked.
9. If a pastry bag is not at hand, the batter may be dropped onto the pan with a spoon.