Alberts.
Four lbs. flour, 2 lbs. sugar, 14 oz. butter and lard, 8 eggs, ½ oz. ammonia and a little lemon oil. Break and rub the butter and lard into the flour so as to incorporate it well. Make a tray, and place sugar in it, the eggs next, and the ammonia and oil of lemon. Beat the eggs a little with the hand so as to mix well the ammonia and oil of lemon. Work all together and shake up until thoroughly mixed; next break into small pieces and roll into balls, and when all are finished place them 1½ inches apart in pans without grease.
Then with a rounded point cone made for the purpose, press in the center of each, so that they will break open in three or four places around the sides, and bake in a tolerably warm oven.