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Almond Jelly Cake

Ingredients

• 3 coffee-cups sugar
• 1 heaping coffee-cup butter
• 6 eggs
• 5 even cups sifted flour
• 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups sweet milk
• 1 teaspoonful lemon flavoring

Instructions

Beat sugar, butter, and egg yolks together to a cream. Add flour, baking powder, sweet milk, the the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and added last; with lemon flavoring. Bake in layers.

Almond Sauce for Filling

• 3 pounds almonds, blanched and pounded to a paste
• 1 1/2 coffee-cups fresh, pure sour cream
• 1 1/2 coffee-cups sugar
• 4 eggs (whites and yolks beaten thoroughly together)
• vanilla

Instructions

Stir all together, and add vanilla enough to drown the taste of sour cream.

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Notes

Attributed to Mrs. George Kling.

Source

Recipes Tried and True (1894).