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After they are cold spread over the first cake a thick wine cream, over the
second a raspberry or currant jelly, and then put one on the other, and on the
following day trim the outer edge smooth with a sharp knife, cover the cake with
any icing desired, such as chocolate or sugar and lemon juice, and decorate with
preserved fruits.
44. Lemon Cake with Icing. Make a puff paste, take a few fresh lemons, sugar,
biscuit and for the icing 4 eggs, 1 pint of sweetened thick cream.
Bake a cake, sprinkle sugar over it, cover with lemon slices freed from peel and
seeds, sweeten with plenty of sugar, lay biscuit slices over this and then pour
over it the eggs, cream and sugar whipped with a beater, and set in the oven
until the icing is thick.
45. puff paste Pie. Make a puff paste of 1/2 pound of flour; take 4 fresh juicy
lemons, 1/2 pound of grated almonds, 1/2 pound of sugar and 4 eggs. Peel the
lemons very thin, boil the peel in water until tender, cut into long pieces,
cook 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar with 1 tablespoonful of wine or the water
in which the peel was boiled, and cook the lemon peel in this to a thick syrup
and until the peel is sugared. Press the juice out of the lemons and stir with
the almonds, sugar, candied peel and eggs. Spread over the dough and bake
quickly.
46. Rice and Lemon Cake. For this take a puff paste as given under Nos. 4 or 6,
1/2 pound of best rice, 1/2 pound of sifted sugar and 4 fresh lemons. Wash and
scald the rice the evening before and let it soak over night in plenty of water;
the next day put it on the fire in the same water, boil until tender and then
pour on a sieve to drain. Grate a lemon on the sugar, cut the rind thinly from 3
lemons, cook the rind in water until tender, cut into strips and candy them the
same as m the preceding receipt. Stir the juice of 4 lemons with the sugar and
mix through the rice with a salad fork. In the meantime roll out the under crust
and make an edge the width of a finger, brushing first with a little water so
that the edge will stick. After the cake is baked and is cool, put the rice over
it, and over this the
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