Bola Toledo

Ingredients

• 1 pound butter
• 1 pound flour
• 6 eggs, beaten
• 1/4 pound sweet almonds, beaten
• 2 tablespoons yeast
• egg, prepared as for Bola d'Amor
• citron, sliced
• egg marmalade
• cinnamon
• rich puff paste
• sugar, clarified with orange flower water

Instructions

1. Take one pound of butter and warm it over the fire with a little milk.
2. Then put it into a pan with one pound of flour, six beaten eggs, a quarter of a pound of beaten sweet almonds, and two table-spoonsful of yeast.
3. Make these ingredients into a light paste and set it before the fire to rise.
4. Then grease a deep dish and place in a layer of the paste, then some egg prepared as for Bola d'Amor, then slices of citron, and a layer of egg marmalade.
5. Sprinkle each layer with cinnamon and fill the dish with alternate layers.
6. A rich puff paste should line the dish, which ought to be deep.
7. Bake in a brisk oven, after which sugar clarified with orange flour-water must be poured over till the syrup has thoroughly penetrated the Bola.