SC - PRECEDELLA MADE OF ALMONDS (Rumpolt 1581, fol. 169b, #57)

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PRECEDELLA  MADE OF ALMONDS   (Rumpolt 1581, fol. 169b, #57)

[57]     Take sugar and rosewater, boil up [together], so that it becomes not 
too thick, stir grated almonds into this boiled sugar, take it from the fire 
when it is well dried. When you take it away, take one to three spoons of 
good white pounded sugar, stir it into the almonds, make this almond dough 
longish with your hands, strew white sugar onto it on the upper and the lower 
side, so that nothing sticks to your hands. And when you have made it 
longish, form small pretzels from it, put them into a warm oven and bake them 
quite slowly, they will get a fine white color.

1 C sugar
1 tsp rosewater
2 C grated almonds
2 T powderd sugar

Heat oven to 325 F.
Boil the sugar and rosewater together until it reduces a bit.
Stir in the grated almonds.
Add the powdered sugar
Knead together.
Roll out and cut 1 " strips.
Form pretzels.
Lay pretzels out on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 30 minutes until goldern.