Macaroone

Ingredients

• 1 pound sweet almonds
• rose water
• 7 egg whites
• 1 pound powdered sugar
• butter
• sugar

Instructions

1. Blanch a pound of sweet almonds and pound them in a mortar with rose water.
2. Whip the whites of seven eggs to a strong froth, put in one pound of powdered sugar, and beat it some time.
3. Then put in the almonds and mix them well.
4. Drop them on sheets of paper buttered, sift sugar over, and bake them quickly.
5. Be careful not to let them get discoloured.