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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