I'm not sure what to make of this recipe. The title suggests it is a Maple Cookie recipe, 'biscuits' usually referring to what we Americans now call a cookie (though in England, they still use biscuit). However, upon reading the recipe, no maple flavoring is used, unless the sugar is maple (maple sugar existed in cones over in the colonies of North America). There were maple tree in Europe, though they did not produce maple sugar, nor syrup.
On the other hand, recipes often depended upon the reader to know what to do, to do what was unwritten. The recipe just provided what might be forgotten, not what was known. Maybe that is the case here.
[1735] Maples Bisket, to Bake
Take Almonds beaten very Fine, one pound, fine Flower a pound and a half, Sugar, one pound, whites of Eggs half a Dozen; make them into Batter with fair water, and put the Batter into your Tin-coffins; ſo bake them, glazing them with the white of an Egg and Roſe-water. [Kenrick, Lady A, "Whole Duty of a Woman", p158 (Printed for A Bettesworth and C Hitch::London) Edition 8]
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