This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
8 ounces granulated sugar - 1 cup.
4 ounces almonds.
6 ounces flour.
\ ounce anise seed.
Mince the almonds as fine as possible, without removing the skins. Mix them and the anise seed with the flour dry. Beat the sugar and eggs together about 20 minutes or until quite light, as if for sponge cake, and lightly stir in the flour etc Bake in long and narrow moulds and when a day old slice and brown the slices on both sides in the oven. .
 
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