Almond Cakes

Ingredients

• 4 cup butter
• 4 egg
• 4 cup blanched almonds
• 4 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoon cinnamon
• 4 tablespoon clove
• 4 tablespoon grated nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons brandy
• 2 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add beaten eggs and chopped almonds, then mix in remaining ingredients.

2. 2

   Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness, cut with a round cutter, and bake until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 eggs % teaspoon cinnamon 4 lb. raisins, seeded and 4 teaspoon clove cut in pieces. 4 teaspoon mace 4 lb. currants 14 teaspoons salt 3 lb. figs, finely chopped cup brandy Whites 4 eggs 4 cup English walnut meats, broken in pieces Soak bread in hot milk and, when cool, add sugar and egg yolks beaten until thick and lemon colored. Then add raisins and currants dredged with two table- spoons flour, figs, citron and nut meats. Cream the suet, add spices and salt and thoroughly combine mix- ture; then add brandy and whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Turn into a buttered mould, cover closely and steam six hours. Serve with Sherry Sauce. SHERRY SAUCE. Beat the yolks of three eggs slightly, using a silver fork. Add one-half cup sugar and one-half cup Sherry wine. Cook over hot water until mixture thickens, then pour gradually on the whites of three eggs, beaten until stiff, continuing the beating. Dinners for Occasions. 127 COFFEE ICE CREAM. 2 cups milk 1 egg 4 cup ground coffee 4 teaspdon salt 1} cups sugar 1 quart thin cream ' 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon vanilla Scald milk with coffee. Mix sugar, flour, salt and add egg slightly beaten, then pour on, gradually, hot mixture. Cook over hot water twenty minutes, stirring constantly at first and afterwards occasionally. Cool, add cream and flavoring, strain through double thick- ness of cheese cloth and freeze. ALMOND CAKES. 4 cup butter 4 tablespoon clove 1 egg 4 tablespoon grated nutmeg 4 cup blanched almonds Grated rind $ lemon 4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons brandy 4 tablespoon cinnamon 2 cups flour

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