To Reduce Almonds to a Paste (The quickest and easiest way)

Instructions

1. Chop the almonds a little on a large and very clean trencher.
2. Then with a paste roller (rolling-pin), which ought to be thicker in the middle than at the ends, roll them well until no small bits are perceptible amongst them.
3. Acton found this method answer admirably; but as some of the oil is expressed from the almonds by it, and absorbed by the board, she recommends a marble slab for them in preference, when it is at hand.
4. Should they be intended for a sweet dish, strew some pounded sugar under them first.
5. When a board or strong trencher is used, it should be rather higher in the middle than at the sides.