This recipe comes from Recherché Luncheon and Dinner Sweets, published in 1906 and written by Charles Herman Senn, a noted food authority of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Senn published a number of cookery books, with his wartime works among his best known. Although he was highly regarded in his time, little is known about him today.
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