Amarettus de is fadas

In every household in Onfalu, the evening before the new moon it is baking evening.

Every family gathers and prepares sweets and bread and gathers fresh fruits from their garden to leave outside the door that very night. The night of the new moon, in fact, is the night when the Janas, free from their duty of prayer, travel down from their forests into human settlements, to collect their tithes.
Most of the families bake their usual fare and just leave a portion out as an offer, while enjoying the rest.
There are anyway some people that bake a particular kind of sweets, the amarettus de fadas

A bitter treat

Identical in everything, but the composition and taste, to normal amarettus, these soft almond biscuits are baked using a much higher percentage of bitter almonds than the usual, sometimes with them substituting completely the sweet almonds.
Bitter to the taste and potentially toxic to humans in large quantities, these sweets are used by the initiated to the cult of the Mother and by the istrias to comunicate to the Janas that they require a meeting with them or help in some arcane matter. The request is intended to be answered within the next new moon unless the level of bitterness of the sweets indicates the urgency, in which case the Janas might answer the call immediately.

Ingredients for the normal amaretti.
300 gr sweet almonds 200 gr bitter almonds 500gr sugar 3 egg whites

Process:
1. Toast the almonds in the oven at 180 C for 10 minutes or until golden.
2. Let cool and grind finely in a mixer with the sugar until they reach a sandy aspect.
3. Whip the egg whites until hign and fluffy. Add the almond flour mixing gently from the bottom to the top to keep the mix soft.
4. Cover the mix and keep in the fridge for one night.
5. The morning after form little balls of mix the size of a walnut, roll them in sugar and place in a baking tray well distanced. Put a peeled almond in the centre of each amaretto.
6. Bake in the oven at 180 C for 15 minutes until they start to rise and the surface starts to crack. They need to reach a golden colour.
7. Let cool and enjoy. The surface will need to be crunchy, while the inside remains soft and wet.