Moz Polo (Walnut Cake)

Ingredients

• four ounces butter
• four ounces sugar
• half a teaspoonful of vanilla essence
• four ounces of chopped walnuts
• the whites of four eggs
• two ounces of flour
• half a teaspoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter to a cream, add sugar and vanilla essence, and beat until light.

2. 2

   Stir in chopped walnuts.

3. 3

   Whisk egg whites and mix with some sifted flour into the creamed mixture.

4. 4

   Add flour and baking powder, pour into a buttered dish, and bake in a moderate oven.

5. 5

   Once cold, cut into pieces and cover with icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Moz Polo. (Walnut Cake.) Beat four ounces butter to a cream ; add by degrees four ounces sugar and half a teaspoonful of vanilla essence. Beat again till very light. Stir in four ounces of chopped walnuts. Whisk the whites of four eggs very stiff, add a little of this with a little sifted Vienna flour into the creamed butter and sugar, and beat con- tinually till all the egg and two ounces of flour have been used. Add half a teaspoonful of baking powder

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