Sherrie
I used to munch this around the markets in Firenze and was given it by a friend.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 2 cups plain flour
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 2 beaten eggs
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 tablespoon butter at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1/4 teaspoon almond essence
• 3/4 cup whole unblanched almonds

Method

Preheat oven to 150C. Combine sugar, flour , soda and salt then beat in the eggs, water, butter, vanilla and almond extracts until just blended. Stir in the almonds and turn out onto a lightly floured board and roll into 2 logs about 5cm in diameter.
bake on greased and floured baking tray until golden about one hour and allow to cool.
With a lovely sharp knife (global) but on an angle about 1 cm wide and place back on the tray and back about 25 mins until brown and crunchy. Let cool and store.

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