Tortes

Remarks: The important rules for baking tortes and other pastries are the following:

a) If clarified butter (rastoplennoe maslo)* is to be added to the pastry batter, it should be placed on top of the stove over a very low fire. When the foam rises, remove the butter from the stove and let it stand. Pour off the liquid on top and strain carefully through a fine sieve, so that the salt and other milky parts remain on the bottom of the pan. Then begin to mix this butter in one direction in a cold place, on snow or ice, until it whitens.