Almond Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb sweet almonds
• 1 oz bitter almonds
• 6 eggs
• 8 tablespoonful sifted sugar
• 5 tablespoonful fine flour
• the grated rind of 1 lemon
• 3 oz butter

Instructions

1. Blanch and pound the almonds to a paste; separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs;
2. beat the latter, and add them to the almonds.
3. Stir in the sugar, flour, and lemon-rind;
4. add the butter, which should be beaten to a cream; and when all these ingredients are well mixed, put in the whites of the eggs, which should be whisked to a stiff froth.
5. Butter a cake-mould, put in the mixture, and bake in a good oven from 1-1/4 to 1-3/4 hour.