Almond Paste for Wedding Cake
From Practical home cookery, 1906
Ensure the paste is not too soft and let it harden before icing.
Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Practical home cookery (1906) by A. G. Payne, page 96. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
ilb. of almonds, and having skinned them by throwing them into boihng water, rubbing off the skins and then throwing them into cold water in order that they may not lose their colour, pound them very thoroughly in a mortar with i lb. of the finest white sugar, add a very little orange-water, and sufficient white of eggs to make it all into a soft paste
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