Almond Macaroons

• Jordan almonds blanched, 1 lbs.:
• sugar, 1½ lbs.:
• whites of 7

Blanch a pound of fresh Jordan almonds, wipe them dry, and set them into a very cool oven to render them perfectly so; pound them to an exceedingly smooth paste, with a little white of egg, then whisk to a firm solid froth the white of seven eggs, or of eight, should they be small; mix with them a po