Almond Cake

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup almonds blanched
• 1/2 teaspoon extract bitter almonds
• 1 pint flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• 1 glass brandy
• 1/4 cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and sugar to smooth white cream; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating 3 or 4 minutes after each.

2. 2

   Sift flour and powder together, add to butter, etc., with almonds, extract of bitter almonds, brandy, and milk; mix into smooth, medium batter, bake carefully in rather hot oven for 20 minutes in a fluted mold.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 23. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Almond Cake. — 14 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, I4 cup almonds blanched — by pouring water on them until skins easily slip off — and cut in fine shreds, Mt teaspoon extract bitter almonds, 1 pint flour, 114 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 glass brandy, 14 cup milk. Rub butter and sugar to smooth white cream ; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating 3 or 4 minutes after each. Sift flour and powder together, add to butter, etc., with almonds, extract of bitter almonds, brandy, and milk; mix into smooth, medium batter, bake carefully in rather hot oven 20 minutes in a fluted mold (flg. I). Almond Cake, 2. — % cup butter, 1 cup su- gar, 14 cup milk,

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