Sand Cake
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 185 g fresh butter
- 185 g icing sugar
- 125 g rice flour
- 125 g starch flour (amido)
- 60 g potato flour
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 lemon lemon juice
- 1 spoonful cognac
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- vanilla
Instructions
- Work the butter alone, then add the yolks one at a time, always stirring one direction.
- Add sugar, then cognac and lemon juice, then the three flours.
- Add bicarbonate and beaten whites (two spoonfuls first to loosen, then the rest gently).
- Bake in a greased, dusted pan at moderate heat, about an hour.