Tea Cakes (German) (Miss Becker's Recipe.)

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Butter
• Almonds
• 1 lb. Sugar
• lb. Currants
• 9 Eggs
• 1 teaspoonful Cinnamon
• 1 lb. Flour
• 1/2 teaspoonful Rock ammonia
• Crystallised sugar

Instructions

1. Stir the butter to a cream and mix it well with fine white sugar.
2. Beat in the yolks of 9 eggs and the whites of 2 with the sugar and butter.
3. Then add 1 pound of flour and 1/2 teaspoonful of finely powdered rock ammonia.
4. Butter some paper and put it into pans in a quick oven; drop the mixture with a spoon on the paper.
5. Sprinkle over the top cut-up almonds mixed with the currants, cinnamon, and crystallised sugar.
6. Bake 20 minutes.