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be evenly divided. After the first layer is baked the heat should not be quite
so strong from the bottom of the oven, baking the cake principally from the top,
but keeping up 2 degrees of heat (see No. 1). This mass can also be baked in one
cake and then serve fruit jelly with it.
58. Sand Cake. 1 pound of fresh butter, 1 pound of sifted sugar, 1/2 pound of
fine flour, 1/2 pound of sifted cornstarch, 10-12 fresh eggs, the juice of a
lemon and 2 tablespoonfuls of arrac. All of this, with the exception of the
eggs, must be set in a warm place for a few hours.
The butter is melted and freed from settlings; after it is cold rub to a cream,
adding the sugar by degrees with a little lemon peel, stirring constantly. Then
stir in one by one the yolks of the eggs, the grated lemon peel and the flour, a
spoonful at a time. After this has been stirred for 1/2 hour, stir through it
the arrac and lemon juice and the beaten whites of the eggs, together with a
teaspoonful of baking powder. Put this into a prepared form and then into the
oven and bake with 2 degrees of heat for 1 1/2 hours, and if the cake is very
thick, for 2 hours. During this time the form should not be moved.
This cake can also be divided into three parts, one of which is colored with
chocolate, the other with cochineal, leaving the last yellow, putting one layer
on the other, covering the top with a three-colored frosting seasoned with
Marascino.
59. Cardamom Biscuits. Stir the yolks of 16 eggs with 1 pound of sugar, the peel
of 1/4 and the juice of a whole lemon and 1/2 teaspoonful of fine cardamom seeds
until thick and full of bubbles. Mix through it the beaten whites of 9 of the
eggs, and at last stir in about 1 1/2 pounds of cornstarch. The mould is
buttered thickly, then sprinkle with grated rolls, pour in the cake and bake
slowly for 1 hour in a moderately but uniformly hot oven.
60. Biscuits No. 2. 1/2 pound of pulverized and sifted starch, 1 pound of sugar,
grate the rind of a lemon on. the sugar which is pulverized and sifted after the
yellow is taken off, the whites of 10 and the yolks of 20 fresh
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