Almond Drops

Ingredients

• Five ounces of sweet almonds
• Three ounces of bitter almonds or peach kernels
• Four eggs, the four yolks and one egg white/li>
• Half a pound of sifted flour
• Pound of sugar
• Salt

Directions

1. Blanch and pound the sweet and bitter almonds with the white of one egg.
2. Put the half pound of sifted flour on your dough board.
3. Make a hole in the middle of the flour.
4. Put the almonds, pound of sugar, four egg yolks, and a little salt in the hole in the flour and make it into a paste.
5. Cut the paste in pieces the size of a nut
6. Lay the nut size pieces half an inch apart on a baking pan lined with parchment paper.
7. Bake in a moderate oven for fifteen or twenty minutes.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Rachel Brown
Louisiana Anthology
January 16, 2020