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Almond Cakes

From Recipes for the million, 1891

Serves 11

Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • Sweet almonds, one pound
  • refined sugar, one pound
  • best flour, three-quarters of a pound
  • ten eggs

Method

  1. Blanch the almonds and pound them in a mortar with a little orange-flower water.

  2. Beat up the eggs, then gradually mix the other ingredients, pour into a buttered mould, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

576Calories
18 gProtein
74 gCarbs
25 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 11 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALMOND CAKES. — Sweet almonds, one pound ; refined sugar, one pound ; best flour, three-quarters of a pound, and ten eggs

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