Instructions: * No margarine unless it is the cheap, hard sticks as whipped is watery

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR TOPPING: Put eggs in cereal dish, with shells on. Fill with warm water, set aside. Put water, butter, and almond extract in saucepan. Bring to a boil. Take off burner. Put flour in all at once. Beat until all liquid in absorbed. Beat in eggs one at a time until all glossiness is gone. May only take 2 eggs depending on the size of eggs. You dont want it to be too soft. Set aside. Make crust.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CRUST: Put flour in a medium bowl. Cut in Crisco with two knives until it resembles small pebbles. Add water l Tbsp. at a time until it forms a ball. Pat out on bottom of broiler pan in a circle or a rectangle. Spread topping over crust with a fork, making peaks stand up in the topping. These will bake into the topping and look pretty. Bake for 45 min. to one hour until golden. Remove from oven and cool.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ICING: Put confectioners sugar in bowl or large measuring cup. Add water 1 Tbsp. at a time. Add almond extract. When of drizzle consistency, drizzle over cooled pastry with a fork, making pretty designs on the pastry. Cut in 2"X 2" squares as it will be very sweet.

NOTES : Betty Says: Heres a recipe Ive been making for over 30 yrs. Ive made a few changes to the original which is from a Betty Crocker Cookbook. My granddaughter has loved it since she can remember eating it for the first time.

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