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Mille-feuilles Cake

From The table, 1889

Serves 8

Presented as published in 1889. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The table (1889) by Alexander Filippini, page 296. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mille-feuilles Cake. — Take a pound of short paste or feuille- tage (No. 1076), and divide it into five equal parts. Roll out each piece twelve inches long by four wide, then lay them in a baking-pan, sprinkle a little powdered sugar over, and place them in the oven for ten minutes. Remove, and form the cake by laying these one on top of the other, with layers of preserves

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