This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
1 pound of powdered sugar
6 eggs, beaten very light.
1/2 pound of almonds, blanched and pounded.
1/2 pound of prepared flour.
Rose-water, mixed with the almond-paste.
Whip up the whites of the eggs to a meringue with half the sugar; stir in the almond-paste. Beat the . yolks ten minutes with the remainder of the sugar.
Mix all together, and add the flour lightly and rapidly.
Bake in well-buttered pate'-pans, or other small tins, very quickly. Turn out as soon as done upon a baking-pan, bottom uppermost, that these may dry out.
 
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