Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Macaroon tart (Erken 1914): an almond macaroon mixture of 350 g almonds, 420 g powdered sugar, and 175 g egg whites; half the mixture as a base, the rest piped in a lattice, baked golden at low heat, and the squares filled with fruit once the tart is cold.
Source: Henriette Schønberg Erken, Stor kokebok, 1914-utg. s. 522 (falt i det fri)
An almond macaroon tart with a lattice pattern piped over the base; the squares are filled with fruit after baking. Bitter almonds were used as a flavoring, but are not advised today — use almond essence.
Prepare the almonds
Blanch the almonds, slip off the skins, dry them well, and grind them fine.
Make the almond dough
Pound or process the ground almonds into a fine dough with the powdered sugar, one egg white, and the almond essence.
Fold in the egg whites
Whip the rest of the egg whites stiff and fold them gently into the almond dough.
Shape the tart
Cut parchment paper to the size of the platter you will serve on, grease it, and spread half the dough out as an even base. Pipe the rest of the dough in a lattice over the base with a piping bag.
Bake
Bake the tart at not too high a heat, about 150 °C (300 °F), until it is nicely golden but not completely dried through.
Fill the squares
When the tart is completely cold, fill the squares with an assortment of fruit.
Serve
The tart can be served with stiffly whipped cream or a cream sauce.
Bitter almonds have been replaced with a few drops of almond essence because of their hydrocyanic acid content. "Flormelis" is powdered sugar, "sprut" is a piping bag, and the baking temperature is given in degrees.
Original 1914 recipe
Verbatim from the first edition of the Big Cookbook.

Revised 1949 recipe
From the revised edition of the Big Cookbook.

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