Heart to Hearth Cookery

 To the one pound of sweet almonds pounded very fine with whites of eggs and rind of ten China oranges, three pounds of powdered sugar were added and mixed.   The receipt (recipe) for Orange Biscuits stated if you find it too thick, put more whites of eggs to it and mix it well.   Due to the spreading of the biscuits while baking, I discovered that the batter needed to be quite thick.

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