Almond Cake

Ingredients

• one-half cupful butter
• two cupfuls sugar
• four eggs
• one-half cupful almonds
• one-half teaspoonful extract bitter almonds
• one pint flour
• one and one-half teaspoonful baking powder
• one glass brandy
• one-half cupful milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs one at a time.

2. 2

   Sift flour and baking powder together, add to mixture with almonds, extract, brandy, and milk.

3. 3

   Mix into a smooth batter and bake in a hot oven for twenty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 193. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALMOND CAKE. One-half cupful butter, two cupfuls sugar, four eggs, one-half cupful almonds, blanched — by pouring water on them until skins easily slip off — and cut in flne shreds, one-half teaspoonful extract bitter almonds, one pint flour, one and one-half teaspoonful baking powder, one glass brandy, one-half cupful milk

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