Conde Cakes

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
Source
The modern cook
Yield
18.0 cakes
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
for the almond paste
for the cakes
for finishing
Instructions (10)
  1. Chop six ounces of Jordan almonds as fine as possible.
  2. Mix the chopped almonds with four ounces of sifted sugar, some grated rind of lemon, and the white of an egg.
  3. The whole should present the appearance of a rather firm paste.
  4. Take half a pound of puff-paste, to which give eight turns or foldings.
  5. Roll out the puff-paste to the thickness of the eighth part of an inch.
  6. With a tin cutter of an oval, circular, crescent, diamond, or any other fancy shape, stamp out about eighteen conde cakes.
  7. Place the cakes on a baking-sheet previously wetted over with a paste brush to receive them.
  8. Spread a coating of the prepared chopped almonds on the surface of each cake.
  9. Shake some fine sugar over them with the dredger.
  10. Bake them of a very light-fawn colour.
Original Text
CONDE CAKES. CHOP six ounces of Jordan almonds as fine as possible, mix them with four ounces of sifted sugar, some grated rind of lemon, and the white of an egg; the whole should present the appearance of a rather firm paste. Next, take half a pound of puff-paste, to which give eight turns or foldings, and roll this out to the thickness of the eighth part of an inch; then, with a tin cutter, of an oval, circular, crescent, dia- mond, or any other fancy shape, stamp out about eighteen conde cakes place them on a baking-sheet previously wetted over with a paste brush to receive them; spread a coating of the prepared chopped almonds on the surface of each, shake some fine sugar over them with the dredger, and bake them of a very light-fawn colour.
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