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To this cake take 1 teaspoonful of bating powder mix ing it with the flour.
Bake the cake for 2 hours in a moderately hot oven.
69. Rice Cake. 3/4 pound of rice, milk for boiling; the rice, 6 ounces of
butter, the yolks of 12 egos, the whites of 10 eggs, 1/4 pound of sweet and a
few bitter almonds 1/8 ounce of cinnamon, 1/2 pound of sugared and the grated
peel of a lemon or some candied orange peel (see Division A, No. 48.)
The rice is scalded in water and boiled slowly in milk until tender and thick;
the kernels must remain whole. Then cream the butter and add, constantly
stirring, the sugar, the yolks of the eggs, almonds and spices and at last the
beaten whites of the eggs. The whole is put into a buttered mould which has
first been sprinkled with grated bread and sugar, and then baked in a moderately
hot oven for 1 1/4 hours.
If the rice when cooked should not be thick enough, stir through it some finely
grated bread before putting in the whites of the eggs. Instead of the almonds
1/2, pound of stoned raisins can be cooked with the rice for 1/4 hour.
70. Nice Rice Cake. Boil 1/4 pound of rice in sweet cream with salt and 2 ounces
of sugar, flavored with vanilla, until thick. By the addition of a variety of
ingredients a number of different kinds of the rice cake can be prepared. After
stirring through the rice the yolks of 6 eggs and 2 ounces of grated roll, stir
in 2 ounces of sliced citron or 3 ounces of scalded raisins or 3 ounces of any
kind of scalded candied fruit, also almonds, spices or grated nuts. In the
meantime bake a puff paste No. 3, two crusts of the same size, spread first with
fruit marmalade or a thick wine cream, then with the rice, put on the top crust
and serve immediately.
71. Almond Cake. No. 1. 1/2 pound of flour, 1/4 pound of butter, 1/4 pound of
sifted sugar, 1/4 pound of sweet and 6 grated bitter almonds, and 2 fresh eggs.
Melt the butter, then add the eggs one by one, sugar, almonds, and stir for 1/4
hour, stir through this the flour, put into the pan, press out quite thin and
bake to a nice yellow color.
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