½ cup butter
1½ cups sugar
Yolks 4 eggs
½ cup cold water
1½ cups flour
½ cup corn-starch
4 teaspoons baking powder
Whites 4 eggs
⅓ cup almonds, blanched, and shredded
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water. Mix and sift flour, corn-starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.