Kirschen KtLchen; Cherry Cake

Ingredients

• half a pound of sliced bread
• six well-beaten eggs
• two ounces of pounded almonds
• a quarter of a pound of sugar
• a quarter of a pound of creamed butter
• one and a half pound of cherries
• a small teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Soak bread in milk, press out, and mix with eggs, almonds, sugar, butter, and cinnamon.

2. 2

   Stir in cherries, fill a buttered tin, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and bake slowly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 155. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Kirschen KtLchen ; Cherry Cake {German). — Soak half a pound of shced bread in as much cold milk as it will absorb, press it out; add six well-beaten eggs, two ounces of pounded almonds, a quarter of a pound of sugar, a quarter of a pound of creamed butter, and a small teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon. When these are well mixed, stir in one and a half pound of cherries

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