Portuguese Cake

Portuguese

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“Focaccia alla Portoghese”

Ingredients

  1. Sweet almonds, five ounces.
  2. Granulated sugar, five ounces.
  3. Potato meal, one and a half ounce.
  4. Three eggs.
  5. One big orange or two small.

Preparation

  • First mix the yolks of the eggs with the sugar
  • add the flour
  • Add the almonds, skinned and chopped fine
  • A dd the orange juice (through a colander) then a taste of orange peel.
  • Finally add to the mixture the whites of the eggs well beaten.
  • Put in a paper mold greased evenly with butter, with a thickness of about an inch and bake in a very moderately hot oven.
  • After baked, cover with a white glaze or frost, made with powdered sugar, lemon juice and the white of eggs.
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Farina Tart

portugese egg tarts from lord stow's bakery

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Torta di Semolino

Ingredients

  1. Milk, one quart.
  2. Farina finely ground, four and a half ounces.
  3. Sugar, four and a half ounces.
  4. Sweet almonds with three bitter, three and a half ounces.
  5. Butter, a small piece.
  6. Four eggs.
  7. Taste of lemon peel.
  8. A pinch of salt.
  • Skin the almonds in warm water and ground or pound very fine with all the sugar, to be mixed one tablespoonful at a time.
  • Cook the farina in the milk. Before removing from the fire, add the butter and the almonds, which will dissolve easily, being mixed with the sugar.
  • Put in the pinch of salt and until it becomes lukewarm
  • Add the eggs that are to be beaten whole previously.
  • Pour the mixture in a baking tin greased evenly with butter, sprinkled with bread crumbs and of such a size that the tart has the thickness of an inch or less.
  • Put it in the oven.
  • After it is baked, take it out and let it cool down.
  • Remove from the mold.

Serve whole or cut into sections.

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