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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: ebergman@phaedrus.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Bergman)
- Subject: SacherTorte from an Austrian
- Message-ID: <m9snhrINN8uv@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Keywords: SacherTorte torte
- Organization: SunSoft, Inc.
- Date: 21 Sep 1993 01:51:55 GMT
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- I tasted this in Germany, when I was visiting
- a native Austrian friend. The recipe is from
- his Grandmother who lived outside of Linz.
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- Sacher Torte
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- Beat 90 grams butter with 80 grams powdered sugar
- until creamy. Add 4 egg yolks (save the whites)
- and mix well.
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- Melt 90 grams semisweet chocolate and add it to
- the mix. Beat 4 egg whites and add 80 grams of
- granulated sugar. Slowly add this mixture to
- the chocolate mixture. Last, fold 90 grams of
- flour & 1/2 tsp of baking powder into the mixture.
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- Bake 60-70 minutes (perhaps less)
- at 170 degrees (Centigrade)
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- Cut the baked cake once, put down a layer
- of apricot marmelade, and put it back together.
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- Cover cake with melted semi-sweet chocolate.
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- Options: When cake is cut, sprinkle rum on cake.
- Before covering with chocolate, roll
- marzipan dough flat, and cover cake
- with thin layer.
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