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Almond Cake

Ingredients

• 4 ounces of shelled sweet almonds
• 2 ounces of shelled bitter almonds
• rose-water
• 1/2 pound of flour
• 1 pound of loaf-sugar
• 13 eggs
• 1 grated nutmeg

Instructions

Blanch, and pound in a mortar, the almonds; adding, as you proceed, sufficient rose-water to make them light and white. Sift the flour, and powder the loaf-sugar. Beat the eggs; and when they are as light as possible, stir into them alternately the almonds, sugar, and flour; adding the nutmeg. Butter a large square pan; put in the mixture, and bake it in a brisk oven about half an hour, less or more, according to its thickness. When cool, ice it. It is best when eaten fresh.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).