1605 Torte from rye bread

Name: Torte from rye bread (Tort iz rzhanago khleba)
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: ⅛ glass fine wheat flour; ¾ glass jam or marmalade; ¼ glass rye bread “flour”; ½ zolotnik star anise; ¼ zolotnik cloves (16 pieces); ½ zolotnik (1 teaspoon) cinnamon; ⅓ lb (⅔ glass) sugar; 10 eggs

Tort iz rzhanago khleba

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Gift to Young Housewives

By Elena Molokhovets

Published 1992

About

Ingredients

Ingredients (for 6 persons)

10 eggs
⅓ lb (⅔ glass) sugar

Europe
Russia
Dessert
Eastern Europe
Vegetarian

Method

Beat as well as possible 30 egg yolks, 1 lb sugar, 1½ zolotniki or 3 teaspoons cinnamon, 1½ zolotniki [ground ?] star anise [bad’jan = Illicum anisatum], and ¾ zolotnik, or