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Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
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-----INGREDIENTS-----
1/2 pt Milk
2 tb Bread crumbs
4 oz Butter
2 oz Almonds, ground
1 oz Sugar
3 Eggs
1 Lemon Zest (the grated
-rind of one lemon)
Puff Paste
Directions
Boil the milk and bread crumbs and let them stand for
10 minutes. Add the butter, almonds, and sugar. Beat
in the eggs, one at a time. Put a dessert spoonful of
the mixture in the center of the pastry of the pastry,
and bake until golden brown.
Notes and Credits
From "The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England" by Joan
Parry Dutton 1960, Published by Reynal & Company, Inc.
It is said that Maids of Honour cakes date from a day
in 1525 when Henry VIII saw Maids of Honour for one of
his six Queens eating a platter of cakes with such
joyous relish that he tried one himself, and found it
very good. Another tradition says they were named for
Queen Elizabeth's Maids of Honour when she lived at
Richmond Palace. From "The Cooking of the British
Isles, by Adrian Bailey, Time-Life Books, 1969
Several towns in Britain make small, delectable tarts
known as Maids of Honour, but none are so rich in
flavor and therefore so famous as Richmond Maids of
Honour, which come from Richmond, a suburb of London,
and are said to have been invented for the court of
Henry VIII in the 16th Century.
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