Louisiana Orange Flower Macaroons

Ingredients

• Ten orange flowers
• Two pounds of white sugar
• Seven eggs

Directions

1. Take a cup of freshly gathered petals of the orange flower, and cut them in half with scissors. 
2. Pour the cut petals into two pounds of dry, sifted white sugar. 
3. Beat the whites of seven eggs to a stiff froth. 
4. Add the orange flowers and sugar to the egg whites and mix. 
   
5. Drop this mixture on white paper in small cakes, and bake in a slow oven (do not let them brown).

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Francisco Simoncini
Louisiana Anthology
July 9, 2021