The Archive · 1926

For the Christmas Tree

This is an old German recipe. Five ounces of fat are creamed with five ounces of sugar. Add one egg, eat well, add an ounce of almonds skinned and chopped, and a little vanilla essence, then five ounces of fosse with baking powder, 1f possible, the egg chosen shou! a Targe one, 60 that the dough is workable without the addition of mill but if it is at all stiff a Itle milk should be added in good.ne. This mixture is not to be rr' ed out with the rolling-pin, but gently rolled under the hand it. rolls a little thicker than a lea pencil. Cut into convenient length, the ends are pinched together to make rings, which are first dipped into a little milk and then into a previously pre-Gd cinnamon oF alisp chopped waved mixture of fine sugar, power-

almonds. The rings are baked on. greased flat tins in an oven not Quite s0 slow as for ordinary bis-cults. a I go with net and line To snare from the sublime Wonderful words Like painted birds, And cage them into rhyme. And by a singing stream Angle in a dream For golden carp Like notes of harp, And silver-sided bream.

And having snared these fowl, These fishes in a bowl, Feather and fin, place them in A song to please the soul.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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