Fine Venetian Cake or Cakes

• Almonds, 8 oz.
• flour, 1 lbs.
• butter,

Take of sound Jordan almonds, blanched and well dried at the mouth of a cool oven or in a sunny window, seven ounces, full weight, and one of bitter almonds with them; pound the whole to a perfect paste with a few drops of white of egg or orange-flower water; then mix them thoroughly with one pou