Almond Puffs

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonful flour
• 2 oz butter
• 2 oz pounded sugar
• 2 oz sweet almonds
• 4 bitter almonds

Instructions

1. Blanch and pound the almonds in a mortar to a smooth paste;
2. melt the butter, dredge in the flour, and add the sugar and pounded almonds.
3. Beat the mixture well, and put it into cups or very tiny jelly-pots, which should be well buttered, and bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes, or longer should the puffs be large.
4. Turn them out on a dish, the bottom of the puff upper-most, and serve.