Des Macarons. Commonly Called Macaroni-drops

Ingredients

• Pound some sweet Almonds very fine, and a few bitter ones with them; add pounded Sugar, and a few drops of Orange-slower Water while pounding, for fear they should turn oily
• when done, mix them with their weight of Sugar, and some Whites of Eggs beat up, four to each pound of Almonds and Sugar
• drop it upon white Paper in small nuts
• Pound half a pound of sweet Almonds, with a little Whites of Eggs instead of Orange-slower Water
• mix to half a pound of raw Sugar-powder, two ounces of Rice-flour, four Whites of Eggs beat up as usual
• make a small cavity in the middle, to put a little Marmalade or good thick Cream in