Crinella Family Cookbook
If you'd like to receive notification about updates to
our site, please submit your email address.
|
Our Grandparents' Favorites
Anti Pasti
Soups
Salads
Pasta
Vegetables
Fish
Poultry
Meat
Wild Game
Sweets
Sour Dough
Other Breads ETC
Odds & Ends
Brunch or Luncheon Dishes
Italian Sauce Recipes
Lower Fat Recipes
Slow Cooker Recipes
Entertaining Ideas
Table of Contents
|
Sweets
Winter Dessert
Pears in Cream
Easy Cranberry Pie
Biscotti
Roasted Marone Chestnuts in Vino Rosso
Sweet Potatoes and Apples
Zabaglione
Pannetone
Castagnaccio
Sonoma Roasted Fruit
Panna Cotta
Saint Moritz Rice Cream
Candied Citrus Peels
Peach Leaf Custard
Torta D'Angeli
Orange Cake
Amaretti
Pepper Cookies Trieste
Cherry Fritters
Orange or Grapefruit Fritters
Apricotina
Torta Arancia
Jea's Sour Cream Walnuts
Banana Cream & Co
Pears with Banana Cream
Quick Sonoma Pie
Fruit Filling
Cannoli Cream
Italian Meringue Frosting
Peaches Noir

2006 Pinot Noir
2006 Sauvignon Blanc
2005 Sauvignon Blanc
2005 Glissando
|
Orange Cake
|
The cakes in our modern American bakeries are beautifully decorated with
piped flowers, leaves and birds. What a shame that the taste never equals
the
appearance as the frosting consists of only flavored lard and powdered
sugar.
(You could not get our father to eat that stuff.) Italian cakes generally
are
not so eye catching, thank God, but they have a delicate taste. They are
smaller and meant to be eaten at one meal and so do not have the truly
awful American frosting which is used to keep larger cakes from drying out
for the several days it takes to fully consume them.
1/2 cup sugar, orange flavored if you have it on hand
2 eggs separated
juice of one orange
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup almonds ground fresh in hand held food processor
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon orange extract
pinch of salt
1 tablespoon white rum
|
Butter and 8 inch cake pan.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Sift flour,
baking powder and salt together.
Beat sugar and egg yolks together until
foamy.
Beat in orange juice, almonds, sifted flour mixture, orange juice,
orange extract, and rum.
Beat egg white until stiff and form peaks.
Fold
into egg yolk mixture.
Pour into cake pan.
Bake 30 minutes.
Serve with
whipped cream sprinkled with bits of candied orange peel.
|
|
|