Gateau Turc with Coffee Icing

Ingredients

• four eggs
• two ounces of white sugar
• four ounces of Vienna flour
• two ounces of butter
• four ounces of white sugar
• clear, strong coffee

Method

1. 1

   Break the eggs into a basin, add the sugar, and whisk over boiling water until frothy (about 20 minutes).

2. 2

   Stir in the flour lightly.

3. 3

   Pour into a lined cake tin and bake in a good oven.

4. 4

   For the icing, beat the butter to cream, work in the sugar, and add coffee to make a stiff paste.

5. 5

   Apply to the cake with an icing tube and dry in a cool oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 312. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gateau Turc with Coffee Icing; — Break four eggs into a basin, and put with them two ounces of white sugar. Have on the fire plenty of boiling water in a pan of such a size that the basin can rest on the top of it. Put the basin over the water, draw the pan back a little way, and whisk the eggs and the sugar till the mixture froths, which it will do in about twenty minutes. Take the basin off the fire and stir in lightly four ounces of Vienna flour. Pour the batter into a cake tin lined with paper, and bake in a good oven. Coffee Icing for this Cake . — Beat two ounces of butter to cream and work in four ounces of white sugar. Add clear, strong coffee

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