Crescents Recipe

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Ingredients for Crescents
  • ½ lb. almond paste
  • Almonds, blanched and finely chopped
  • 2 ozs. confectioners' sugar
  • White 1 small egg

Instructions
  1. Work together almond paste and sugar on a smooth board or marble slab.
  2. Then add whites of eggs gradually, and work until mixture is perfectly smooth.
  3. Confectioners at first use the hand, afterwards a palette knife, which is not only of use for mixing but for keeping board clean.
  4. Shape mixture, which is quite soft, in a long roll.
  5. Cut pieces from roll three-fourths inch long.
  6. Roll each separately in chopped nuts, at the same time shaping to form a crescent.
  7. Bake twenty minutes on a buttered tin sheet in a slow oven.
  8. Cool, and frost with Confectioners' Frosting, made thin enough to apply with a brush, and flavored with lemon juice until quite acid.
  9. Other nuts may be used in place of almonds.

 




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