Soyer's Cake Without Flour

Ingredients

• One pound ground sweet almonds
• one-half pound of butter
• one pound of sugar
• ten yolks of eggs
• three ounces of arrowroot fecule
• ten whites of eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix up butter, sugar, almonds and yolks of eggs altogether with the flavor.

2. 2

   Beat it up well, then mix up the arrowroot, then beat the whites of eggs very stiff.

3. 3

   Mix up gently as for sponge cake.

4. 4

   Have your mold well buttered.

5. 5

   Pour the mixture in half the mold and bake it slowly in a paper bag, or otherwise.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 241. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soyer's Cake Without Flour. One pound ground sweet almonds, one-half pound of but- ter, one pound of sugar, ten yolks of eggs, three ounces of arrowroot fecule, ten whites of eggs

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