Nut Cakes

A dish that starts with meat from 1 lb. pecans and finishes with powdered sugar.

Cake

contains glutencontains eggs

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • Meat from 1 lb. pecans
  • 1 lb. powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup flour
  • Whites 6 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Steps

  1. Pound nut meat and mix with sugar and flour. Beat whites of eggs until stiff, add first mixture and vanilla. Drop from tip of tablespoon (allowing one spoonful for each cake) on a tin sheet covered with buttered paper. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
Calories472
Protein0.8 g
Fat0.1 g
Carbs119.1 g
Fiber0.2 g
Sodium2 mg

Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States