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Cinnamon Stars

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g sugar (sifted)
• 500 g almonds (ground with skin)
• 6 pcs egg whites
• 4 g cinnamon (fine)
• lemon zest (finely chopped) (a little)
• egg white and sugar (for brushing) (a little)

Instructions

1. Vigorously and continuously stir the sugar and lemon zest with the beaten egg whites for fifteen minutes.
2. Add the cinnamon and mix in the almonds thoroughly.
3. Roll out the dough thinly on a floured board and cut into stars of any size using a cookie cutter.
4. Brush with egg white and sugar and bake slowly on a wax-rubbed baking sheet.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.