Maids of Honor

Ingredients

• Puff paste
• eight ounces of castor sugar
• four ounces of Jordan almonds
• one ounce of fine flour
• four yolks of eggs
• four tablespoonfuls of cream
• two tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water

Method

1. 1

   Blanch and dry the almonds, and pound them in a mortar with the sugar until fine.

2. 2

   Add the yolks of eggs one at a time, and mix in the flour, cream and orange-flower water.

3. 3

   Line eight or nine small tartlet molds with paste, fill them with the mixture, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Maids of Honor. INGREDIENTS. — Puff paste, eight ounces of castor sugar, four ounces of Jordan almonds, one ounce of fine flour, four yolks of eggs, four tablespoonfuls of cream, two tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water

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