This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Chop when partly dry, and sift through a sieve; chop again what remains on the sieve and sift as before.
Dry freshly peeled almonds in a cloth and cut at once into shreds, lengthwise.
Pound in a mortar half a pound of almonds, with a few spoonfuls of cold water, until the meats are reduced to a fine paste; dilute with a pint of milk, or water, and strain through a cheesecloth, pressing out all that will pass through.
Mix the almonds with white of egg, or liquid, and pound in the mortar. Or mix with sugar and put through a meat-cutter three or four times. After forcing the nuts through the chopper the first time, adjust the machine to cut, or crush, as fine as possible.
 
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