Baden Cakes

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• six ounces of butter
• an ounce and a half of castor sugar
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• four tablespoonfuls of cream
• the yolks of three eggs
• the whisked whites of the three eggs
• a tablespoonful of almonds

Method

1. 1

   Make short pastry with flour and butter, line tins.

2. 2

   Stir sugar, butter, cream, and yolks until creamy, add almonds and egg whites.

3. 3

   Pour into tins and bake for about twenty minutes.

4. 4

   Ice with icing sugar and egg white, sprinkle with pistachio nuts.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 153. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baden Cakes. — Make some short pastry with half a pound of flour and six ounces of butter, and line some tins with it. Then put an ounce and a half of castor sugar, a quarter of a pound of butter, four tablespoonfuls of cream, and the yolks of three eggs in a stewpan, and stir till it becomes the consistency of cream ; then add a tablespoonful of almonds which have been previously blanched and finely cut up, and the whisked whites of the three eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.