"Aniseed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Rub some shallow tin pans with wax, place 1/2 pound sugar and 4 whole eggs in a bowl, set the bowl into a pan of hot water, beat the contents of bowl with an egg beater 15 minutes, then remove and beat till cold; add 1 teaspoonful well-cleaned aniseed and 1/2 pound sifted flour, fill the mixture into a pastry bag and press small cakes on to the waxed tins, cover and let them stand till next day, when the little cakes have obtained a crust, then bake them in ...
— Desserts and Salads • Gesine Lemcke
... half a hogshead of the best canary he could procure; two casks of malmsey, each containing twelve gallons; a quarter-cask of Malaga sack; a runlet of muscadine; two small runlets of aqua vitae; twenty gallons of aniseed water; and two eight-gallon runlets of brandy. To this he added six hogsheads of strongly-hopped Kent ale, calculated for keeping, which he placed in a cool cellar, together with three hogsheads of beer, for immediate ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... on to boil with aniseed balls in a saucepan. Anthea did this, because she thought it would be good for the Lamb's cough. The whole thing forgotten, and bottom of saucepan burned out. It was the little saucepan lined with white that was kept ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit |
