Almond Fingers

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• % cup Crisco
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• % teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup almonds
• ¥% cup sifted sugar
• white of 1 egg

Method

1. 1

   Rub Crisco into flour, add sugar and baking powder.

2. 2

   Make into stiff paste with egg.

3. 3

   Roll out and cut into fingers.

4. 4

   Chop almonds and mix with sifted sugar and egg white.

5. 5

   Spread on fingers and bake until light brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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