extract and cool stirring occasionally. Almond Paste. Cream half cup butter, add quarter lb. ground, blanched almonds and half cup sugar and well until smooth. Another kind of almond paste without butter is made of: quarter ]b. almonds, half cup sugar and 3 egg whites. Work well together until smooth. From "Danish Cookery" by Suzanne, Andr. Fred. Host & Son, Copenhagen, 1957.