Arrowroot Cookies

Directions

1. 1
   Beat the butter to a cream.
2. 2
   Whisk the eggs to a strong froth.
3. 3
   Add them to the butter, stir in the flour a little at a time and beat the mixture well.
4. 4
   Break down all the lumps from the arrowroot and add it with the sugar to the other ingredients.
5. 5
   Mix all well together, drop the dough on a buttered tin, in pieces the size of a shilling.
6. 6
   Bake the biscuits about 15 minutes in a slow oven.
7. 7
   Time: 15 minutes.
8. 8
   Sufficient to make from 3 to 4 dozen biscuits.
9. 9
   Seasonable at any time.