To Reduce Almonds to a Paste

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
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Instructions (3)
  1. Chop the almonds a little on a large and very clean trencher.
  2. With a paste roller (rolling-pin), which ought to be thicker in the middle than at the ends, roll them well until no small bits are perceptible amongst them.
  3. If a board or strong trencher is used, it should be rather higher in the middle than at the sides.
Original Text
TO REDUCE ALMONDS TO A PASTE. (The quickest and easiest way.) Chop them a little on a large and very clean trencher, then with a paste roller (rolling-pin), which ought to be thicker in the middle than at the ends, roll them well until no small bits are perceptible amongst them. We have found this method answer admirably; but as some of the oil is expressed from the almonds by it, and absorbed by the board, we would recommend a marble slab for them in preference, when it is at hand; and should they be intended for a sweet dish, that some pounded sugar should be strewed under them. When a board or strong trencher is used, it should be rather higher in the middle than at the sides.
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