Savoy Cake with Oranges

Ingredients

• Put 1/2 lb. of caster sugar
• 2 table-spoonfuls of powdered orange sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• the yolks of seven eggs
• 3oz. of flour
• 2oz. of potato-flour
• Whip the whites of eight eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put caster sugar into a basin with powdered orange sugar, salt, and yolks of eggs; beat until frothy.

2. 2

   Sift in flour and potato-flour gradually.

3. 3

   Whip egg whites to a stiff froth, mix with batter, and pass through a fine sieve.

4. 4

   Warm and grease a mould, dust with caster sugar and potato-flour, fill three-quarters with batter, and bake for an hour in a moderate oven.

5. 5

   Turn out onto a sieve to cool.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

avoy Cake with. Oranges. — This fanciful dish has only eccentricity to recommend it. It was originally prepared by Urbain Dubois for the court of Prussia. Put |lb. of caster sugar into a basin with 2 table-spoonfuls of powdered orange sugar, 1 pinch of salt, and the yolks of seven eggs ; beat the mixture well till frothy, then sift in gradually 3oz. of flour and 2oz. of potato-flour. Whip the whites of eight eggs

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