Fugger Almond cake Recipe from about 1500 :D
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Fugger Almond cake Recipe from about 1500 :D
This is a post from Lidimy's mum as I thought you might like it for your collection. The recipe is said from the times of the German Fugger family who were wealthy 15th century Hanse merchants.
Ingredients for the dough:
250 g plain flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk
a pinch of salt
150g butter
For the filling:
220g ground almonds
150g sugar
zest of one lemon
juice of 2 large lemons
For Brushing:
2 tbsp milk
for sprinkling:
50g chopped almonds
Prepare dough as for shortcrust pastry/French pastry.
Mix the ground almonds with the sugar, the lemon zest and the lemon juice.
Pre-heat oven to 200C.
Roll out just over half of the pastry and line a springform tin (24cm) with a 2cm raised edge. Prick pastry a few times with a fork. Fill in filling. Roll out remaining pastry to tin-size and cover the filling with it. Nip the pastry edges together. Prick pastry top a few times with a fork and brush with milk. Scatter chopped almonds over the top and slightly press into the pastry. Put into the oven on the middle shelf and bake for 40 mins. When done remove from oven, loosen from the tin and leave to cool.
A treat any knight or merchant wants to come home to. Secures your maiden daughters a husband.
Ingredients for the dough:
250 g plain flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk
a pinch of salt
150g butter
For the filling:
220g ground almonds
150g sugar
zest of one lemon
juice of 2 large lemons
For Brushing:
2 tbsp milk
for sprinkling:
50g chopped almonds
Prepare dough as for shortcrust pastry/French pastry.
Mix the ground almonds with the sugar, the lemon zest and the lemon juice.
Pre-heat oven to 200C.
Roll out just over half of the pastry and line a springform tin (24cm) with a 2cm raised edge. Prick pastry a few times with a fork. Fill in filling. Roll out remaining pastry to tin-size and cover the filling with it. Nip the pastry edges together. Prick pastry top a few times with a fork and brush with milk. Scatter chopped almonds over the top and slightly press into the pastry. Put into the oven on the middle shelf and bake for 40 mins. When done remove from oven, loosen from the tin and leave to cool.
A treat any knight or merchant wants to come home to. Secures your maiden daughters a husband.
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Fugger almond cake recipe
I shall try it out on Zacos next weekend, (I'm his fearsome Mum) thanks! It also might be a recipe I could use for my ground almonds when I've extracted almond milk from them?!
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Regrettably not a good recipe for ground almonds which have been used for making almond milk as relies on the stuff that goes into the milk.
Suggest that you use them for thickening and bulking up pottage instead - if you are home they also make quite a good but crumbly short pastry in a 50/50 with flour, though this is best made with butter rather than margarine.
Sophia
Suggest that you use them for thickening and bulking up pottage instead - if you are home they also make quite a good but crumbly short pastry in a 50/50 with flour, though this is best made with butter rather than margarine.
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Re: Fugger almond cake recipe
Let me know how you get on.... see you at Mannington?Cecily wrote:I shall try it out on Zacos next weekend, (I'm his fearsome Mum) thanks! It also might be a recipe I could use for my ground almonds when I've extracted almond milk from them?!
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