Dissolve the chocolate with a very little water and vanilla over the fire. Cream the butter and sugar, beat well, add yolk, then chocolate and half of flour, beat well, then work in rest of flour by hand. Roll out very lightly and bake a few minutes.
15. Cinnamon Stars.
1½ whites of eggs.
1-oz. castor sugar.
4-oz. ground almonds.
½-oz. cinnamon.
Mix all to stiff dough, roll out on a board sprinkled with sugar and flour, and cut in stars. Bake in a moderate oven. Brush with white of egg and return to the oven to glaze.
16. Ratafias.
1 egg, its weight in sugar and butter, ¼-lb. flour, 1 teaspoonful baking powder, few drops of essence of ratafia. Cream the butter and sugar, add flour, etc. Drop on wafer-paper in small pieces. Bake lightly.
17. Almond Rings.
2½-oz. castor sugar.
White of 1 egg.
2½-oz. ground almonds.
Juice of 1 lemon.
1½-oz. sweet almonds (cut in thin strips).
Beat the sugar and white of egg 10 minutes and add the other ingredients, mix well and form into small rings and bake a pale brown.