Ryzon Polish Guest Cake a la Reszke

Ingredients

• 1 large navel orange
• 8 eggs
• 2½ cupfuis (1 pound) powdered sugar
• 1 box (1 pound) fine matzoth meal
• ½ cupful (¼ pound) sweet butter
• Pinch salt
• 1 level teaspoonful Ryzon

Method

1. 1

   First butter a cake mold very thickly with sweet butter, cold and not melted.

2. 2

   Wash and dry orange and grate it (skin and pulp) into a large mixing bowl.

3. 3

   Add yolks of eggs, mix well, then add gradually pinch of salt, and sugar.

4. 4

   Sift one box of fine matzoth meal and mix with Ryzon.

5. 5

   Now beat up whites of eggs to a stiff froth and stir lightly into orange mixture, add meal and turn into the prepared mold and bake in moderate oven until ready.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Ryzon baking book (1916) by Marion Harris Neil, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RYZON POLISH GUEST CAKE A LA RESZKE BY MRS. HULDA THOMPSON, NEW YORK CITY I large navel orange. 8 eggs. 2^ cupfuis (i pound) powdered sugar. I box (i pound) fine matzoth meal. yi cupful (X pound) sweet butter. Pinch salt. I level teaspoonful Ryzon. First butter a cake mold very thickly with sweet butter, cold and not melted. Wash and dry orange and grate it (skin and pulp) into a large mixing bowl. Add yolks of eggs, mix well, then add gradually pinch of salt, and sugar. Sift one box of fine matzoth meal and mix with Ryzon. Now beat up whites of eggs to a stiff froth and stir lightly into orange mixture, add meal and turn into the prepared mold and bake in moderate oven until ready. This cake should be a nice brown on the top and it should tae tested with a straw taken from a new broom. This recipe was a favorite in the family of the famous singers, the de Reszke brothers, and was frequently served at the four o'clock coffee re- ceptions given by Mme. Kronberg, nee de Reszke, at her Warsaw palace. Prize Recipe RYZON MARYLAND BLACK CAKE BY MRS. JULIUS SNOWDEN, LAUREL, MD. I cupful {yi pound) butter. 2}i level cupfuis (l pound) brown sugar. I nutmeg, grated. I level dessertspoonful (2 level teaspoon- fuls) powdered cinnamon. I level teaspoonful powdered cloves. 1 level tablespoonful powdered ginger. 6 eggs, separated. 2j4 level cupfuis (10 ounces) flour. 4 level cupfuis (2 pounds) seeded raisins. 6 level cupfuis (lyi pounds) currants. 2 level teaspoonfuls Ryzon. }4 cupful (i gill) molasses. }4 cupful (i gill) sherry wine or fruit juice. 4 level cupfuis (i pound) shredded candied citron peel. Cream butter well ; add one-half of sugar mixed with spices and mix well, now add remainder of sugar mixed with beaten yolks of eggs, and beat for five minutes. Beat up whites of eggs and add them to mixture. Now add flour mixed with currants and raisins cut in halves, Ryzon mixed with molasses and wine. Mix carefully and place one-fourth of this mixture in a large cake pan lined with greased paper, then sprinkle in a layer of citron. Repeat until batter and citron are all used. Bake in a moderate oven for four hours. Cover cake with greased paper while baking as it burns easily. It may be necessary to put a pan of hot water in the oven to moderate the heat, or to place a tin or an asbestos mat under- neath. Sufficient for one large cake. RYZON OLD-FASHIONED POUND CAKE }i cupful {^yi ounces) butter. 2 level cupfuis {yi pound) flour. I level teaspoonful Ryzon. Pinch salt. 1 cupful {}4 pint) eggs — 5 eggs usually fill a cup; the eggs are measured before beating. lyi level cupfuis (12 ounces) sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls orange flower water. Cream butter with flour. Add Ryzon and salt to eggs and beat them very light with an egg beater. Add sugar gradually, and beat well, re- move the beater, add egg mixture to creamed flour, using a wooden spoon, until all is mixed. Add orange flower water, and beat thoroughly with long, light strokes. Turn into a greased and floured shallow cake tin, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Sufficient for one cake (for ten to twelve people). RYZON HASTY CAKE yi cupful (2 ounces) butter. 1 level cupful (yi pound) sugar. yi cupful (l gill) milk. 2 egg whites. yi teaspoonful orange or almond extract. 2 level teaspoonfuls Ryzon

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