Fine Almond Cake

Name: Fine Almond Cake
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: eggs, 12; bitter almonds, 1 oz.; flour, ¾ lbs.; sugar, 1 lbs.; rinds lemons, 2:; butter, 1 lbs.; Jordan almonds, ½ lbs.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

About

Ingredients

Jordan almonds, ½ lbs.
bitter almonds, 1 oz.
eggs,

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Blanch, dry, and pound to the finest possible paste, eight ounces of fresh Jordan almonds, and one ounce of bitter; moisten them with a few drops of cold water or white of egg, to prevent their oil