Genoese Pastry Recipe
Ingredients: Eggs, sugar, butter, flour, almonds, orange or lemon,
brandy.
Weigh four eggs, and take equal weights of castor sugar, butter, and
flour. Pound three ounces of almonds, and mix them with an egg, melt
the butter, and mix all the ingredients with a wooden spoon in a pudding
basin for ten minutes, then add a little scraped orange or lemon peel,
and a dessert-spoonful of brandy. Spread out the paste in thin layers
on a copper baking sheet, cover them with buttered paper, and bake in a
moderately hot oven.
These cakes must be cut into shapes when they are hot, as otherwise they
will break.
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