Almonds are finely ground in a kitchen machine. Add powdered sugar and grind again until a cake. Add the water and the butter, as well kneaded by hand. Mixture tear balls the size of a walnut, which are formed elongated, such as cigarettes. Mix the flour, the butter and water kneaded to hard dough. Roll out the dough as thin as possible, cut circles with a diameter of about 10 cm. In each round is placed in a cigarette * *, and screwed so that the edges to be overlapped, and then is bent like a crescent. Sealing the ends are pressed gently with a fork, finally punctured in several places and are coated with a slightly broken egg white. Bake on kitchen paper or lightly greased baking tray in a preheated oven at 180 C or 10 minutes at 70-80 C until the dough has dried completely (all are loose). In the first case, are pale brown in the second remained white. * The dose is 50 permanently in a box at least one month.