1/2 cup butter 11/2 cups flour
11/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup corn-starch
Yolks 4 eggs 4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup cold water Whites 4 eggs 1/3 cup almonds, blanched, and shredded
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs well beaten, and water. Mix and sift flour, corn-starch, and baking powder, and add to first mixture; then add whites of eggs beaten until stiff. After putting in pan, cover with almonds and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.
