Ballette

Ingredients

• 1 lb. fresh butter.
• 1 oz. creme deriz (Groult’s).
• 2 oz. line flour.
• 3 whole eggs.
• £ oz. baking-powder.
• 3 oz. vanilla sugar.
• H oz. ratafia crumbs.
• Pink icing.
• Carmine.

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter, sugar, a little colouring and the lemon rind grated, together for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Then mix in the creme de riz, fine flour, and ratafia crumbs (or ground almonds) alternately with the eggs, and stir for 15 minutes.

3. 3

   Add the baking-powder, and pour the mixture into little cups which have been covered with cold butter and cake crumbs, and bake about 20 minutes in a moderate oven.

4. 4

   When cold, dip them into pink icing, and sprinkle chopped pistaches on the top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families (1907) by May Henry, Kate Halford, page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

^ lb. fresh butter. ^ lb. castor sugar. | lb. ground almonds. 2 eggs. 1 oz. casumen. Place the casumen, 5 oz. of the flour and all the butter before the fire for a few minutes, then mix it with the sugar, almonds and eggs. Turn the mixture on to a floured board and roll out thin, using the remaining 3 oz. of flour in so doing. Take 2 round biscuit cutters, one two sizes smaller than the other and stamp the paste out in rings, place them on a greased tin, sprinkle them with ground almonds and white sugar, and bake 15 minutes in a brisk oven. ALMOND ROCK CAKES. 4 oz. almonds, blanched and cut into spikes. 3 oz. mixed peel. 1 oz. flour, lb. castor sugar. 2 oz. butter. 2 whites of eggs. Beat the whites, and mix all the ingredients together to a light paste. Place the mixture in small heaps on wafer paper. Bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes. CAKES, BREAD AND BISCUITS. 153 BALLETTES. \ lb. fresh butter. 1 oz. creme deriz (Groult’s). 2 oz. line flour. 3 whole eggs. £ oz. baking-powder. Grated lemon rind. 3 oz. vanilla sugar. H oz. ratafia crumbs. Pink icing. Carmine.

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