Siesta Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound butter
• 1 pound flour
• 6 eggs
• 1/4 pound sweet almonds
• 2 tablespoons yeast
• pounded almonds
• sugar
• citron
• cinnamon

Instructions

1. Take one pound of butter and warm it over the fire with a little milk.
2. Put it into a pan with a pound of flour, six eggs, a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds finely pounded, and two table-spoonsful of yeast.
3. Beat these ingredients well together into a light paste and set it before the fire to rise.
4. Butter the inside of a pan and fill it with alternate layers of the paste and of pounded almonds, sugar, citron, and cinnamon.
5. When baked, and while hot, make holes through the siesta with a small silver skewer, taking care not to break it.
6. Pour over clarified sugar till it is perfectly soaked through.