No. 219. Amaretti leggieri (Almond Cakes)
Ingredients: Almonds (sweet and bitter), eggs, castor sugar.
Blanch equal quantities of sweet and bitter almonds, and dry them a
little in the oven, then pound them in a mortar, and add nearly
double their quantity of castor sugar. Mix with the white of an
egg well beaten up into a snow, and shape into little balls about
the size of a pigeon's egg. Put them on a piece of stout white
paper, and bake them in a very slow oven. They should be very
light and delicate in flavour.
No. 220. Cakes alla Livornese
Ingredients: Almonds, eggs, sugar, salt, potato flour, butter.
Pound two ounces of almonds, and mix them with the yolks of two
eggs and a spoonful of castor sugar flavoured with orange juice.
Then mix two ounces of sugar with an egg, and to this add the
almonds, a pinch of salt, and gradually strew in one and a half
ounces of potato flour. When it is all well mixed, add one ounce
of melted butter, shape the cakes and bake them in a slow oven.
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