3 c Sugar

2 c Flour

1 c Loppered milk (teacupful)

1/2 c Butter

5 Eggs; well beaten

2 tb Rose water

3/4 lb Almonds, blanched

-- chopped very fine 1 ts Soda; dissolved in:

-Boiling water Cream butter and sugar; stir in the beaten yolks, the milk, flour, rose-water, almonds, and lastly the beaten whites very lightly and quickly; drop in rings on buttered paper and bake at once.