Madame Werner’s Rosenvik Cheese-Cakes

Instructions

1. Blanch and pound to the finest possible paste, four ounces of fine fresh Jordan almonds, with a few drops of lemon-juice or water.
2. Then mix with them, very gradually indeed, six fresh, and thoroughly well-whisked eggs.
3. Throw in by degrees twelve ounces of pounded sugar, and beat the mixture without intermission all the time.
4. Add then the finely grated rinds of four small, or of three large lemons, and afterwards, by very slow degrees, the strained juice of all.
5. When these ingredients are perfectly blended, pour to them in small portions, four ounces of just liquefied butter (six of clarified if exceedingly rich cheese-cakes are wished for), and again whisk the mixture lightly for several minutes.
6. Thicken it over the fire like boiled custard, and either put it into small pans or jars for storing, or fill with it, one-third full, some pattypans lined with the finest paste.
7. Place lightly on it a layer of apricot, orange, or lemon-marmalade, and on this pour as much more of the mixture.
8. Bake the cheese-cakes from fifteen to twenty minutes in a moderate oven. They are very good without the layer of preserve.
9. Proportions: Jordan almonds, 4 oz.; eggs, 6; sugar, 12 oz.; rinds and strained juice of 4 small, or of 3 quite large lemons; butter, 4 oz. (6 for rich cheese-cakes); layers of preserve. Baked 15 to 20 minutes, moderate oven.
10. Note: this preparation will make excellent fanchonettes, or pastry-sandwiches. It will not curdle if gently boiled for two or three minutes (and stirred without ceasing), and it may be long kept afterwards.