Gateau Trot's Freres

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb. caster sugar
• 8 large eggs
• 1/2 lb. butter
• 1 lemon
• 6 oz. flour
• blanched and peeled almonds
• pistachios
• angelica
• glace cherries
• apricot marmalade

Method

1. 1

   Put the sugar in a clean basin, add gradually the yolks of the eggs and the butter; work till it resembles a creamy substance.

2. 2

   Add the finely grated rind of a lemon and half its juice (strained).

3. 3

   Whisk the whites of egg till stiff and stir in carefully with the flour, which should be previously sifted.

4. 4

   Pour the mixture into a trois freres mould and bake in a moderately heated oven from forty to forty-five minutes.

5. 5

   Coat the cake whilst still warm with some dissolved apricot marmalade; decorate with strips of almonds, pistachios, angelica, and cherries.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new century cookery book (1901) by Charles Herman Senn, page 479. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

\ lb. caster sugar, £ lb. grated chocolate, £ lb. Vienna flour {sifted), 4 eggs, 1 oz. ground rice, i teaspoonful vanilla essence, chocolate icing. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream ; add the grated chocolate and work in the eggs one at a time. Now add the flour and ground rice, and lastly the vanilla flavouring. Beat the mixture for at least ten minutes (longer if possible). Fill a well-buttered gateau mould and bake for about three-quarters of an hour in a moderately heated oven. When done turn out on to a sieve and let cool, cover with chocolate icing and decorate to taste with glace royale. The same mixture put into a buttered pudding-mould and steamed for one and a half hour will make a very delicious pudding. 1762. Chocolate Icing. — Put four ounces of chocolate on a plate in the oven, make soft, then put it in a stewpan with half a pound of icing sugar, moisten with half a gill of water, and stir over the fire until quite hot and smooth. This mixture must be very hot, but should not be allowed to boil. 1763. Gateau Trot's Freres. — | lb. caster sugar, 8 large eggs, £ lb. butter, 1 lemon, 6 oz. flour, blanched and peeled almonds, pistachios, angelica, and glace cherries, apricot marmalade

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