Turk’s Cake

Ingredients

• four eggs
• 4oz. of sifted crushed loaf sugar
• 4oz. of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder
• 2oz. of butter
• 4oz. of sugar
• 1 tablespoonful of cold clear strong coffee

Method

1. 1

   Beat four eggs with sugar over boiling water for ten minutes, then beat for five more.

2. 2

   Sift in flour and baking powder, mix gently, and pour into a buttered mould.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven.

4. 4

   Beat butter with sugar and coffee to make a paste, decorate the cooled cake, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Turk’s Cake. — Put four eggs and 4oz. of sifted crushed loaf sugar into a basin, beat them together over a saucepan of boiling water for about ten minutes ; remove the basin from the saucepan and beat five minutes longer. Sift in 4oz. of flour and 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder, stir gently to mix, pour it into a plain mould buttered and dusted with sugar, and bake in a moderate oven. Turn it out when done, and let it get quite cold. In the meantime beat 2oz. of butter with 4oz. of sugar to a white cream, add gradually 1 table- spoonful of cold clear strong coff

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