Almond Crisps

Ingredients

 * ½ cup of butter
 * 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract
 * 1 cup of powdered sugar
 * ¼ teaspoonful of almond extract
 * 2 eggs
 * 2 tablespoonfuls of milk
 * blanched almonds, cut in halves
 * 2 cups of flour

Directions

 * 1) First cream the butter and gradually beat in the sugar.
 * 2) Reserve the white of one egg to glaze the cakes.
 * 3) Beat the yolk of this egg and the other whole egg; add to the creamed ingredients with the milk, flour and flavoring.
 * 4) More flour may be needed.
 * 5) The dough must be stiff enough to hold its shape when baked.
 * 6) Take a little of the dough onto a floured board, turn it in the flour with a knife, then knead slightly and with the rolling pin roll into a thin sheet.
 * 7) With a French patty cutter stamp the dough into rounds and stamp each round with the same cutter again, to divide each into a crescent and an oval shaped cake.
 * 8) Set these on buttered baking pans.
 * 9) Press upon each three halves of almonds, then brush over with the white of egg, reserved for the purpose, and sprinkle the whole with granulated sugar.
 * 10) Bake in a quick oven to a pale straw color.