{"id":10676,"date":"2023-07-13T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:27:27","slug":"adventures-in-baking-tea-almonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/07\/13\/adventures-in-baking-tea-almonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Baking: Tea Almonds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I picked up the White Lily Flour Cook Book by J. Allen Smith & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee (1932) while at a vintage market recently. Unusually, it included a recipe that used no flour at all! The amounts of sugar to egg white make the mix almost nougat-y and yet they are also like a firm dacquoise, or nutty meringue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instructions said drop by teaspoon, but I think they could stand a little light shaping to be less dollops-of-concrete-like after baking. The original recipe also said to bake on an ‘oiled baking sheet,’ but I found this was not necessary if using a silicone baking mat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up the White Lily Flour Cook Book by J. Allen Smith & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee (1932) while at a vintage market recently. Unusually, it included a recipe that used no flour at all! The amounts of sugar to egg white make the mix almost nougat-y and yet they are also like a… Continue reading Adventures in Baking: Tea Almonds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10005,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/01\/11\/in-search-of-the-perfect-honey-cake\/","url_meta":{"origin":10676,"position":0},"title":"In search of the perfect honey cake","author":"leems","date":"January 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been both searching for, and working on, the perfect honey cake recipe for some time now. 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