Required: Rich short-crust pastry. Three eggs and one extra yolk. The weight of three eggs in butter, flour, and castor sugar. One teaspoonful of baking-powder. One tablespoonful of milk. Red-currant jelly. Three ounces of almonds. A little pink or white icing.

Line some patty-tins with the pastry. Cream together the butter and sugar, then add the eggs and extra yolk one by one, beating each well in. Sieve together the flour and baking-powder, add these lightly to the mixture. Lastly, add the milk.

Fill the pastry case three parts full of the mixture, and bake them in a moderate oven until they are a pale biscuit colour.

Turn them out of the tin, and leave them until cold. Brush the pastry cases over with melted jelly, and sprinkle it with chopped almonds, leaving a round space without any at the top. On this force a neat round of icing.

Cost, about 1S.