Kirschen Kuchen (Cherry Cake)

Ingredients

• Soak 1/2 lb. of sliced bread
• in as much cold milk as it will take up
• six well-beaten eggs
• 2oz. pounded almonds
• 4oz. caster sugar
• 4oz. creamed butter
• a small teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon
• stir in 1.5 lb. of stoned cherries

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, dust with sugar and cinnamon, and bake slowly in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Kirschen Kuchen ( Cherry Cake). — Soak Jib. of sliced bread in as much cold milk as it will take up, then press it out and beat into it six well-beaten eggs, 2oz. pounded almonds, 4oz. caster sugar, 4oz. creamed butter, and a small teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon. When these are thoroughly mixed, stir in 1^ lb. of stoned cherries

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