Almond Cakes

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (10)
  1. Take one pound of almonds, blanch them.
  2. Take one pound of double-refined sugar, beaten very small.
  3. Crack the almonds, one by one, upon the tops.
  4. Put them into the sugar.
  5. Mix them, and then beat them well together till they will work like paste.
  6. Make them into round cakes.
  7. Take double-refined sugar, pounded and sifted, beat together with the white of an egg.
  8. When the cakes are hardened in the oven, take them out, and cover one side with sugar with a feather.
  9. Then put them into the oven again, and, when one side is hardened, take them out and do the same on the other side.
  10. Set them in again to harden, and afterwards lay them up for use.
Original Text
Almond Cakes. Take one pound of almonds, blanch them; then take one pound of double-refined sugar, beaten very small; crack the almonds, one by one, upon the tops; put them into the sugar; mix them, and then beat them well together till they will work like paste. Make them into round cakes; take double-refined sugar, pounded and sifted, beat together with the white of an egg, and, when the cakes are hardened in the oven, take them out, and cover one side with sugar with a feather; then put them into the oven again, and, when one side is hardened, take them out and do the same on the other side. Set them in again to harden, and afterwards lay them up for use.
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