Room For Dessert Pastries
Recipes: cake, pies, cheesecake, cookies, bread & more
Curly Tart
(Torta ricciolina)
Sweet almonds with a few bitter ones, four ounces,
Granulated sugar, six ounces,
Candied fruits or angelica, 2½ ounces,
Butter, two ounces,
Lemon peel.
Mix two eggs with flour, flatten the paste to a thin sheet on a bread board and cut into thin noodles. In a corner of the bread board make a heap of the almonds with the sugar, the candied fruit cut in pieces and the grated lemon peel. All this cut and crush so… Continue reading
Rocky Road Chocolate Cake
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Ingredients
- 2/3 cup soft shortening
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 2 1/4 cups sifted flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp. baking soda
Preparation
Cut waxed paper to fit bottom of 13 x 9-inch pan. Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs, one at a time and beat well. Blend in melted chocolate. Add flour and salt alternately with buttermilk and baking soda. Pour into prepared pan.… Continue reading
Rice Tart
Torta di Riso
Ingredients
- Milk, one quart.
- Rice, seven ounces.
- Sugar, five and a half ounces.
- Sweet almonds with four bitter ones, three and a half ounces.
- Candied cedar (angelica), one ounce.
- Three whole eggs.
- Five egg-yolks.
- Taste of lemon peel.
- A pinch of salt.
Preparation
- Skin the almonds and grind or pound them with two tablespoonfuls of the sugar.
- Cut the candied cedar in very small cubes.
- Cook the rice in the milk until it is quite firm, put… Continue reading
Farina Tart
Torta di semolino
Ingredients
- Milk, one quart.
- Farina finely ground, four and a half ounces.
- Sugar, four and a half ounces.
- Sweet almonds with three bitter, three and a half ounces.
- Butter, a small piece.
- Four eggs.
- Taste of lemon peel.
- A pinch of salt.
Preparation
- 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 and before removing from… Continue reading
Strawberry Cream Cake
Ingredients
2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp. salt
Strawberry syrup
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. grated lemon peel
1 tbsp. lemon juice
6 drops red food color
2 pkg. frozen strawberries, thawed and drained
1 14-oz. can crushed pineapple, drained
3 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 cup heavy cream
Crumb crust
Put gelatin, sugar and salt in top of double boiler. Stir in syrup and beaten eggs, then put over boiling… Continue reading
Margherita Cake
(Pasta Margherita)
Potato meal, three ounces.
Sugar, six ounces.
Four eggs.
Lemon juice.
Beat well the egg-yolks with the sugar, add the potato meal and the lemon juice and stir everything for half an hour. Finally beat well[Pg 128] the whites, and mix the rest, stirring continually but slowly. Pour the mixture in a smooth and round mold, greased with butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Put at once in the oven.
Remove from the mold when cold and dust… Continue reading
Italian Corn Meal Cakes
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Italian Corn Meal Cakes (“Pasta di Farina Gialla”)
Ingredients
- Corn meal, seven and a half ounces,
- Wheat flour, five and a half ounces,
- Granulated sugar, five and a half ounces,
- Butter, three and a half ounces,
- Lard, two ounces,
- A pinch of anise seed,
- One egg.
Preparation
- Mix together the corn meal, the flour and the anise seed and knead with the butter, the lard and the egg that quantity that you can, forming… Continue reading
Almond Cake
Almond Cake Recipe
(Bocca di dama)
Ingredients
- Granulated sugar, nine ounces,
- [Pg 130]Very fine Hungarian flour, five ounces,
- Sweet almonds with some bitter ones, two ounces,
- Six whole eggs and three egg yolks,
- Taste of lemon peel.
Preparation
- Skin the almonds in warm water and dry them well.
- Grind or better pound the skinned almonds well together with a tablespoonful of sugar and mix well with the flour.
- Put the rest of the sugar in a deep dish with the… Continue reading
Hawaiian Cake
Hawaiian cake recipe
This is a recipe to remind you of warmer places when winter has you socked in. Forget about the winter blues for awhile as you drift away to tropical places with this delicious cake.
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/8 tsp. salt
Preparation
Cream the butter and sugars until creamy and smooth. Beat the egg into the… Continue reading
Cake Madeleine
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Cake Madelaine (Pasta Maddalena) Recipe
Ingredients
- Sugar, four and a half ounces,
- Flour, three ounces,
- Butter, one ounce,
- Egg-yolks, four,
- Whites of eggs, three,
- A pinch of bi-carbonate of soda,
- A taste of lemon peel.
Preparation
- First mix and stir the yolks with the sugar and when they have become whitish, add the flour and stir for fifteen minutes more.
- Mix with the butter, melting or softening it fine if it… Continue reading
