Almond Puff Pastry Recipe

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Almond Puff Pastry Recipe

   Ingredients required
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons water
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup water
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup flour
3 eggs

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Almond Puff Pastry Recipe

   Heat oven. Cut 1/2 cup of butter into one cup flour. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of water over mixture, mixed with four. Round into ball, divided in half. On ungreased baking sheet, pat each half into strip, 12 x 3 inch. Strips should be about three inches apart. In medium pan heat 1/2 cup butter in 1 cup water to rolling boil. Remove from heat and quickly stir in almond extract and one cup flour. Stir vigorously over low heat until mixture forms a ball, about 1 minute. Remove from Heat. Beat in eggs, all at one time, until smooth. Divide half, spread each half evenly over strips, covering completely. Bake one hour. Cool. Frost with glaze. Serves 10 to 12. Confectioner's sugar glaze: Mix 1 1/2 cup of confectioner's sugar, 2 tablespoons of butter or margarine, 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract or 1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla, and 1 to 2 tablespoons of warm water until smooth.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.

Almond Puff Pastry Recipe