Hanover Cake or Pudding

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (8)
  1. Beat half a pound of blanched almonds fine, with a little rose water.
  2. Add half a pound of fine sugar, pounded and sifted.
  3. Add fifteen eggs, leaving out half the whites.
  4. Add the rind of a lemon grated very fine.
  5. Put a few almonds in the mortar at a time, and put in by degrees about a tea-cupful of rose water; keep throwing in the sugar; when you have done the almonds and sugar together a little at a time till they are all used up, then put it into your pan with the eggs.
  6. Beat them very well together.
  7. Bake for half an hour.
  8. It must be a light brown.
Original Text
To make a Hanover Cake or Pudding. TAKE half a pound of almonds blanched, and beat fine, with a little rose water, half a pound of fine sugar, pounded and sifted, fifteen eggs, leaving out half the whites, the rind of a lemon grated very fine; put a few almonds in the mortar at a time, and put in by degrees about a tea-cupful of rose water; keep throwing in the sugar; when you have done the almonds and sugar together a little at a time till they are all used up, then put it into your pan with the eggs: beat them very well together. Half an hour will bake it; it must be a light brown.
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