Almond Tartlets

Ingredients

• 2 oz. almonds
• 1 oz. butter
• 1 oz. sugar
• ^egg
• ^ teaspoonful lemon juice
• A little grated lemon rind
• 2 oz. flour

Method

1. 1

   Blanch the almonds and chop them finely.

2. 2

   Cream the butter and sugar, and beat in the egg with the almonds, lemon juice, and rind.

3. 3

   Make the pastry and roll it very thinly; cut in rounds, turn them, and line some greased patty tins evenly.

4. 4

   Half fill the tins with the mixture.

5. 5

   Put the tartlets in a hot oven till the pastry is set, then reduce the heat and cook the mixture more slowly.

6. 6

   Cook from thirty to forty minutes, till firm and a pale brown colour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for high-class cookery (1912) by Edinburgh School of Cookery, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALMOND TARTLETS. Mixture. 2 oz. almonds. 1 oz. butter. 1 oz. sugar. ^egg. ^ teaspoonful lemon juice. A little grated lemon rind. Short Crust Pastry. — 2 oz. flour

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