French Money Cakes

Ingredients

• five pounds of honey
• ten or twelve pounds of flour
• one ounce of ammonia
• three pounds of sugar
• two ounces cinnamon
• one ounce of cloves
• one ounce of cardamon
• nutmeg
• two pounds of chopped almonds
• one pound chopped orangeat
• one-half pound of citran
• one-half ounce of potash

Method

1. 1

   Boil the honey, strain; when cooled partly, add flour, then add ammonia, sugar, spices, and chopped ingredients.

2. 2

   Roll out one-third inch thick, cut with round cutter large, bake and set in drying oven to make brittle.

3. 3

   Ice one half of top white, the other half with chocolate.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Perfection in baking (1895) by Emil Braun, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

nutmeg, spices, the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one-half of an ounce of ammonia or three- fourths of an ounce of potash, one-half of an ounce of soda. Pour the honey over this; add one glass of rum or kirsch water, and make with enough pastry flour into medium dough. Bake in sheets one- fifth of an inch thick on strong tins, well dusted with flour. Bake quick and frost. [Frosting. — Boil three pounds of granulated sugar with one pint of water to the "thread." Rub with stiff brush a little at a time over the sheets, until it granulates or gets white.] Warm the sheets again and cut with a sharp knife in small tablets, about one and one-half inches by two and one-half inches long. Pack five in a glossy white paper, lay one on top and tie all together neatly with narrow red tape. Sui>iti~ Nuts (Hard Tacks). Two pounds of sugar, four eggs, the yolks of eight eggs, one- half of a pint of milk, one ounce of ammonia, lemon. Mix with — 7-15 — enough soft flour to make into a stiff dough. Cut out very small, round, but very thick. Bake at 370 degrees; afterwards you may throw all in- boiled icing (conserve), and spread on a sieve to dry. Cobblestones (Pfeffernnsse). Mix and bake, same as above, one pound of sugar, one pint of molasses, spices, one-half of an ounce of soda, one-half of an ounce of ammonia, ginger and cinnamon, one pint of milk or water, and enough soft flour to make a stiff dough. Surrar JKlltS. RIH.E NUTS. Boil six pounds of sugar with one quart of water to thread, let cool ; add four eggs, one and three-fourth ounces of ammonia, one ounce of cardamon, one ounce of cinnamon, four eggs and sufficient Hour. Cut out in small round nuts, bake medium. To above dough the same quantity of honey cake dough can be mixed in. Pepperii 11 ts. HONEV. To ten pounds of scraps of honey cakes, ginger cake, etc., add enough warm water to make a mush, add two pounds of honey, two pounds of syrup ami sufficient soft flour to make soft dough. Then add four ounces of cinnamon, four ounces of allspice, one ounce of cloves, one ounce of potash and one-half ounce of ammonia, rubbed fine with water; then make a stiff dough. Jeing- for Peppemtits. Boil five and one-half pounds of sugar, granulated or A, to a good thread, with one quart of water. Put enough of the nuts in a bowl and pour some of the syrup over them, working trough with a spatel until all are covered. J\faearoo/i-J/ont'v Cukes. FOR PAiKAGES. One pound of almond paste worked "smooth with egg white; one pound powdered sugar, one-fourth of a pound of granulated sugar; one ounce flour, vanilla, spread with a wet knife one-third of an inch thick upon wafer sheets; dust with fine sugar, cut in cakes about two by three inches; bake in cool oven. Freucfi Money Cnlccs. FOR PACKAGES. Boil five pounds of honey, strain ; when cooled partly, add ten or twelve pounds of flour; then add one ounce of ammonia, three pounds of sugar, two ounces cinnamon and cloves, one ounce of cardaman, nut- meg, two pounds of chopped almonds, one pound chopped orangeat, one-half pound of citran and one-half ounce of potash

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