Method:
1)
Make puff pastry dough following basic cookbook directions or
by frozen and defrost
2)
Prepare almond paste filling: mix ground almonds with sugar,beaten
egg, grated peel and salt
3)
Roll paste into a sausage, about 1" in diameter, wrap in wax paper
and chill
4)
Roll out dough to strip about 3 1/2 " wide and 1/8" thick
5)
Place almond mixture sausage along centre of rolled out dough
and wrap dough over and seal both ends with water
6)
Shape this pastry into the required letter (e.g. the letter "D"
) and place, seam down, on a floured cookie baking sheet
7)
Beat egg with a little water and brush top of letter with it
8)
Bake 30-35 mins. in 425 degr. oven
9)
Cool on rack
For
the Christmas wreath shape the filled dough into a ring, sealing
ends together. Bake as above, cool and sprinkle with icing sugar
an red and green maraschino cherries and leaves cut from green
candied citron.
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