Icing (for Cake). Recipe No. 3. (Almond.)
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Blanch fifteen ounces of Jordan, and one ounce of bitter almonds; pound to a smooth fine paste, with two tablespoonfuls of orange-flower water; then add one and a quarter pounds of sifted sugar, and the whites of four eggs. Mix and pound well for eight or ten minutes; take it up in a bowl. Pass a long band of paper, 2½ inches wide, around the sides of the cake, leaving it 1 inch above the top; then make a layer of the icing, place it in a slow oven thirty-five minutes without acquiring any color. It may be served as it is, or be iced over, as in previous recipe.
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