Spanish Cake

Ingredients

• 12 eggs
• % lb. of fine sugar
• 1 lb. of flour
• % lb. of pounded almonds
• 2 ozs. of candied orange-peel
• 2 ozs. of citron
• four spoonfuls of orange flower water
• % oz. of cinnamon
• a glass of wine

Method

1. 1

   Mix the ingredients and bake in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 101. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

% lb. of fine sugar ; sift by degrees into it seven well beaten eggs, and the peel of a lemon shred extremely fine ; mix the whole well in a stew-pan over a slow fire with a whisk, then put it immediate- ly into the oven in the same, and bake forty minutes. Another. — Beat twelve yolks and six whites of eggs with the peels of two lemons grated. Mix 1 lb. of rice flour, and % lb. of flour, and 1 lb. of sugar sifted : then beat it well with the eggs for an bout with a wooden spoon. But- ter a pan well, and. pit it in at the oven mouth for an hour and a half. CAKE, RICH, Butter for.— For large and rich cakes the directions are, to beat the butter to a cream ; but they are quite as light when it is cut small and gently melted with just so much heat as will dissolve it. If it be shaken round in a saucepan, previously warmed, and held near the fire for a short time, it will soon be liquefied ; it must not oe when added gradually to the other ingredients. To cream butter, drain the water well from it, after it is cut, soften it a little before the fire, if hard, and then with the back of a large wooden spoon, beat it till it resembles thick cream. When prepared thus, the sugar is added to it first, and then the other ingredients in succession. CAKE, Short. — Rub into 1 lb. of dried flour, 4 ozs. of butter, 4 ounces of white powdered sugar, one egg, and a spoonful or two of thin cream to make it into a paste. When mixed, put cur- rants into one half, and caraways into the rest. Cut as before, and bake on tins. CAKES, Shrewsbury. — Into 1 lb. of flour rub % lb. of butter, and 6 ozs. of sugar ; make a hole in the mid- dle, into which break two or three eggs, add milk to form a paste ; roll out one- eighth of an inch thick, and cut into small cakes ; bake in a slow oven. CAKE, Spanish. — Take 12 eggs, % lb. of fine sugar, and mill them in a chocolate mill till they are of a lather ; mix in 1 lb. of flour, % lb. of pounded almonds, 2 ozs. each of candied orange- peel and citron, four spoonfuls of orange flower water, % oz. of cinnamon, and a glass of wine

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