To a pound of almonds, allow two pounds of sugar mixed in the same way, and laid out in the same manner.
Ratafia Biscuits.
Take half a pound of sweet almonds, and half a pound of bitter: pound them fine, mixed with whites of eggs, then add two pounds and a half of sugar; beat it up well with whites of eggs, then drop them on paper, and bake them in a slow oven.
Orange Biscuits.
Mix one pound of almonds, with two pounds of sugar in the same manner as ratafia biscuits; but rasp the rind of eight China oranges among it, and drop them in small drops.
Lemon biscuits are made in the same manner.
Spanish Rusks.
Take half a pound of yolks, half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of flour; two ounces of butter, two lemons rasped, and a glass of brandy: mix all together, then roll it up stiff, and make it in rings, and bake them.
Merenges.
Take a pint of sugar, and the whites of six eggs; boil the sugar to the degree called blown, then grain it, and mix in the whites whisked stiff: lay them out in oval shapes, and brown them in the oven, put a piece of barberry jam in between, and put two halves together.