Cookies "Brutti Ma Bonni"

Translated from the Italian translation, it sounds like unprepossessing, but tasty. This cookie has been known since the Middle Ages, it was baked by monks and eaten with wine.

Ingredients

• almonds 1.5 cups
• egg whites 2 pcs.
• sugar 150 g
• flour 1 tbsp.
• lemon zest 1 tsp
• orange peel 1 tbsp
• vanillin pack
• 1 pinch salt
• lemon juice 1 tsp

Directions

1. Peel the almonds, just pour boiling water for 5 minutes, the skin slides easily when you press on the nut. Grind with a mixer, but not into flour, but so that different pieces come across.
2. Mix the ingredients to make the cookie dough
3. Whisk the whites until white with sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt. Stir in flour (1 tbsp. L. Without top), add lemon and orange zest, nut crumbs. Stir and leave for 5 minutes.
4. Place the cookie dough on a baking sheet and bake until tender.
5. On a baking sheet, lay a bed of baking paper, sprinkle with flour and a spoon moistened with water, put the cookies at some distance from each other. We send it to the oven, preheated to 170 ° C for 20 minutes. When the cookies take on a pleasant golden hue, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Let it cool a little and carefully remove it from the paper. While the cookies are hot, they are elastic, but then they will harden and become brittle.