645. Torta Tedesca

German Cake

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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Here is another cake from Germany, as tasty as the one described in the preceding recipe; indeed, it’s excellent.

Our grandfathers used to tell how toward the end of the 1700s, when the Germans invaded our country, there was still something uncivilized in their customs. For example, they used to provoke everyone’s horror by preparing broth with tallow candles that they plunged in a pot of boiling water, then squeezing out the wicks. But when, unfortunately, they descended on us agai