Almond Short Pastry

Name: Almond Short Pastry
Yield: Pastry for 9- or 10-inch flan ring
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Pinch of ground cloves; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 hard-cooked egg yolks, sieved; 3 raw egg yolks; ½ cup almond paste; ½ cup butter, softened; 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind; ½ teaspoon salt; ⅓ cup sugar; ⅔ cup ground unblanched almonds; 1¼ cups sifted all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Pastry for
9- or 10 inch

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

About

Ingredients

½ cup almond paste
3 raw egg yolks
1¼ cups sifted all-purpo

Americas
United States
Pastry
New York
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the almond paste with the raw egg yolks.
Mix the flour and ground almonds together in a bowl. Make a well in the center and in it place the sugar, salt, lemon rind, butter, spices, hard-cooked egg yolks and the almond-paste mixture.
With the finger tips gradually work the ingredients together to form a ball of dough. Chill until fi