German Almond Cake

Ingredients

• 8 ounces sugar
• 4 ounces butter
• 6 eggs
• 1 pint milk or water
• 3 large teaspoons baking powder
• 1.5 pounds flour
• 2 ounces almonds
• Little salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix up like pound cake by creaming the sugar and butter together, adding the eggs two at a time, the milk and then the flour with powder and salt.

2. 2

   Spread it 1/2 inch deep in a greased baking pan and bake about 30 minutes in a slack oven.

3. 3

   Mince the almonds fine, after scalding and peeling them.

4. 4

   When the cake is done, brush over the top with syrup and sprinkle the minced almonds upon it.

5. 5

   Cut in 16 square blocks.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

. 2 pounds flour — 8 level cups. Beat the sugar and eggs together a few minutes, in a good sized pan, as if baking sponge cake. Melt the butter in a little saucepan, beat it in and the milk, powder and flour. Beat up well Drop epoonfnls on baking pans very slightly greased and bake in a moderate oven. They rise in the middle cone shaped For variations sprinkle currants on top, or a shred of citron, or gravel sugar. The latter is crushed loaf sugar sifted through the holes of a colander and tbe dust sifted away. Cost of material — sugar 10, eggs, 20, butter 20, powder 4, flour 6; 60 cents for 4 J pounds plain — about 80 to 100 according to size and lightneps. 285— German Almond Cake. A cheap and simple sort of lunch cake to be cut in square blocks Only good while fresh. 8 ounces sugar — 1 cup. 4 ounces butter — J cup. 6 eggs. 1 pint milk or water — 2 cups, 3 large teaspoons baking powder 1^ pounds flour — 6 cups. 2 ounces almonds. Little salt

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