Nuts! - My Delicious Almond Slice Recipe

For the pastry:

8 ounces flour

1 egg

2 oz castor sugar (in the United Kingdom, this is a more refined sugar than ordinary white granulated sugar)

5 ounces butter

Make the pastry - combine all ingredients together. This is a sweet pastry and requires no additional liquid.

Roll out into a rectangle and place in a greased tray - you need an approximately 8 'x 12' with a bit depth, because the almond paste is continuously until it is baked.

Cover bottom of pastry with jam - we use raspberry, blackcurrant or Damson, everything we have in store. Any jam would.

For almond filling:

8 ounces chopped almonds

4 oz castor sugar

4 ounces icing sugar

3 eggs

teaspoon almond essence

1 cup milk

Combine all these ingredients into a mixing bowl - pour into the pastry base. Scatter some flaked almonds on top of mixture.

Bake in a medium hot oven until golden brown.

Let it cool down and then cut into fingers. You should have 16 fingers, at least from this recipe. Store in a tin - kept cool.

Aaaaaaaaargh - we can savor the taste right now! This is one of our favorite recipes. If you prefer, you can make it a Bakewell tart by boiling in a circular pie dish instead of a tray-bake tray.

We hope you enjoy this recipe.