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Good Shortcrust Pastry for Cakes

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g flour
• 300 g butter
• 125 g sugar (sifted)
• 125 g almonds (crushed)
• 1 pcs egg yolk
• 9 pcs egg yolks (hard-boiled, finely chopped)
• white wine (as needed)

Instructions

1. Make a dough from flour, butter, sugar, crushed almonds, egg yolk, finely chopped hard-boiled egg yolks, and enough white wine so that the dough can be easily rolled.
2. Bake a bottom and top crust or a lattice cake from it.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.