German Almond Rings

Ingredients

• one-half pound blanched almonds
• one-half pound pulverized sugar
• one-half pound puff-paste
• whites of six eggs

Method

1. 1

   Roll the paste very thin and cut out with a tumbler or tin biscuit-cutter.

2. 2

   From each cut, a smaller one from the center so that the ring will be three-fourths of an inch wide.

3. 3

   Beat the whites to a stiff froth; then add the sugar and stir with the dish in boiling water until the meringue is quite thick.

4. 4

   Stir in the sliced almonds.

5. 5

   Cool, then place this mixture on the rings.

6. 6

   Bake in an oven at the temperature proper for cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Statesmen's dishes; and how to cook them (1890) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GERMAN ALMOND RINGS. BY MKS. WM. WINDOM. (Wife of Secretary of the Treasury.) pNE-HALF pound blanched almonds, one-half pound pulverized sugar, one-half pound puff- paste, whites of six eggs

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