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Persimmon Cake with Brown Butter Icing

Total Time45 mins
Course: Dessert
Servings: 2 people

Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar

Instructions

  • Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the liquor and rose-water gradually to them.
  • Beat the whites only, of six eggs, till they stand alone on the rods; and then stir the beaten white of egg, gradually, into the butter and sugar. Afterwards, sprinkle in, by degrees, the grated cocoa-nut, stirring hard all the time. Then stir all very well at the last.
  • Break up a cocoa-nut, and take the thin brown skin carefully off, with a knife. Wash all the pieces in cold water, and then wipe them dry, with a clean towel. Weigh a quarter of a pound of cocoa-nut, and grate it very fine, into a soup-plate.
  • Grate the yellow rind of the orange and lime, and squeeze the juice into a saucer or soup-plate, taking out all the seeds.
  • Beat the whites of six eggs till they stand alone. Stir the almonds and white of eggs, alternately, into the butter and sugar; and then stir the whole well together.
  • Have ready a puff-paste suf­fi­cient for a soup-plate. But­ter the plate, lay on the paste, trim and notch it. Then put in the mix­ture.
  • Bake it about half an hour in a mod­er­ate oven.

Notes

For the honeyed pear topping, have ready a sheet of puff-paste made of five ounces of sifted flour, and a quarter of a pound of fresh butter. Lay the paste in a buttered soup-plate. Trim and notch the edges, and then put in the mixture. Bake it about half an hour, in a moderate oven. Grate loaf-sugar over it, before you send it to table.
Tip: Place the pans in the oven and bake for 40-50 minutes, or until they’re golden around the edges. In making pies of juicy fruit, it is a good way to set a small tea-cup on the bottom crust, and lay the fruit all round it. The juice will collect under the cup, and not run out at the edges or top of the pie.