Damson Short Cake

Ingredients

• Roll 1/2 lb. of puff paste
• shave 1/2 lb. of sweet almonds
• mix with 1/2 lb. of powdered sugar
• the unwhipped white of an egg
• a deep layer of tart damson jam

Method

1. 1

   Roll puff paste, make two crusts, mix almond paste, spread on upper crust, bake until crisp.

2. 2

   Fill with damson jam and top with the iced crust.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Damson Short Cake. — Roll Yz lb. of puff paste to a thin sheet, and trim with a pastry wheel into two circular crusts. Shave Y\ lb. of sweet al- monds into fine shreds, and mix with % lb. of powdered sugar and the unwhipped white of an egg to form a paste. Slip the circles of puff paste into baking-sheets, and spread the surface of the upper crust with a coating of the almond paste the thickness of a silver dollar. If the almond paste be a trifle stiff, rub in a spoonful or two of extra white of egg. Heat a quick oven with more heat underneath than on top, and bake the crusts until the puff paste be- comes crisp and the almond paste has crusted a delicate even fawn. When the crusts become cool, spread the surface of the under-crust with a deep layer of tart damson jam

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