How to Make Macaroons

(Amaretti)

Macaroon Ingredients

• Granulated sugar, nine ounces.
• Sweet almonds, three and a half ounces.
• Bitter almonds, half of the above quantity.
• Whites of egg, two.

Preparing Macaroons

• Skin and dry the almonds, then chop them very fine.
• Mix the sugar and the whites of egg and stir for about half an hour,
• then add the almonds to form a rather hard paste. Of this make little balls, as large as a small walnut. If the paste is too soft add a little butter, if too hard add a little white of egg, this time beaten. Were it desired to give the macaroons a brownish color, mix with the paste a little burnt sugar.
• As you form the little ball, that you will flatten to the thickness of one third of an inch, put them over wafers or on pieces of paper or in a baking tin greased with butter and sprinkled with half flour and half powdered sugar. Dispose them at a certain distance from one another as they will enlarge and swell, remaining empty inside.
• Bake in an oven moderately hot.