Sweet-Almond Amaretti with raisins

Name: Sweet-Almond Amaretti with raisins
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: italian
Ingredients: 150 g ground sweet almonds; 100 g sugar; 2 piece egg whites; 5 g lemon zest; 30 g raisins

Sweet-Almond Amaretti with raisins. Book: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24407 Quantities and instructions were newly written for home cooking; this is not a historical transcription. Not…

150 g ground sweet almonds
100 g sugar
2 piece egg whites
5 g lemon zest
30 g raisins

Rinse raisins and drain. Heat oven to 170 °C and line a baking tray.
Whisk egg whites until foamy and mix in sugar, ground sweet almonds and lemon zest; fold in the variation ingredient.
With damp hands form 16 equal small mounds on the tray. Bake for 15–20 minutes until lightly golden and the centre reaches 71 °C.
Cool completely for 30 additional minutes and serve four per person. Only ordinary sweet almonds are used in this modern formula. Cool leftovers rapidly in shallow containers and refrigerate at 4 °C within 2 hours.
Photo: Marica Massaro — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amaretti_colorati.jpg Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Resized and converted to JPEG; no crop. Amaretti with sweet-almond decorations; colour, shape and fruit additions differ.

Original modern halal adaptation and ingredient variation inspired by Maria Gentile, The Italian Cook Book, dish family: Sweet-Almond Amaretti.