Ciao tutti!

Ok - I'm trying to make Ricciarelli for Thanksgiving. My recipe is all in Italian (of course).

I have some questions on my translation (yes I used babelfish) – if anyone can answer them please, I will send them some ricciarelli!! :)
(just send me your address)

What is Ciotolina?
Is the egg white beaten or just straight from the egg?
What is “firm snow”?
What does polpettine mean?
Are they using wafers in place of rice paper???
When you put the formed Ricciarelli on the “slab of the furnace for 10 hours” does this mean it is in a cool oven??
Most of the ending i do not understand so a complete translation of that whole bit would be awesome.

Italian:
Tostate le mandorle nel forno caldo a 200 C per 3-4 minuti; pestatele nel mortaio, versatele in una ciotolina ed unitevi lo zucchero.
Aggiungete loz zucchero a velo, le scorzette di arancio e l'albumine dell'uovo montato a neve ferma.
Amalgamate bene il composto formando con esso delle polpettine schiacciate a forma di rombo, che poserete su ostie di uguale forma. Allineate i ricciarelli su una piastra da forno e lasciteli riposare per 10 ore circa. Trascorso questo tempo infornate a forno gia caldo ma basso (150 circa) affinche non prendano colore e rimangano morbidi. Fateli cuocere per un'ora circa. Sfornateli e spolverizzateli di zucchero a velo. Serviteli freddi.

Babelfished English:
Toasted the almonds in the warm oven at 200 C for 3-4 minutes; grind them in the mortar, pours them in one ciotolina to you and joined the sugar to you. You add loz icing sugar, rind of orange and egg white to firm snow. Amalgamate well the compound forming with it of the polpettine crushed to rumble shape, that you will rest on wafers of equal shape. Put the ricciarelli on the slab from furnace and lasciteli to rest for 10 hours approximately. Passed this time put into an oven to warm furnace gia but low (150 approximately) affinche they do not take color and they remain soft. It makes you to cook them for an hour approximately. Sforna you them and spolverizza you them of sugar to veil. Eat cold.