Ingredients:
Eggs, sugar, butter, flour, almonds, orange or lemon, brandy.
Preparation:
Weigh four
eggs, and take
equal weights of castor sugar, butter, and flour.
Pound three
ounces of almonds,
and mix them with an egg, melt the butter, and mix all the ingredients
with a wooden spoon in a pudding basin for ten minutes, then add a
little
scraped
orange or
lemon peel, and
a dessert-spoonful of brandy.
Spread out
the paste in thin
layers on a baking sheet, cover them with buttered paper, and bake in a
moderately hot oven.
TIP: These cakes must
be cut into shapes when they are hot, as otherwise they will break.
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