Anyone have a recipe for Italian cream cake that uses real dairy cream?!
Answers:
Cremona Cake Recipe
Ingredients: Ground rice, ground maize, sugar, one orange, eggs, salt, cream, Maraschino, almonds, preserved cherries.
Weigh three eggs, and take equal quantities of castor sugar, butter, ground rice, and maize (the last two together); make a light paste with them, but only use one whole egg and the yolks of the two others, add the scraped peel of an orange and a pinch of salt. Roll this paste out to the thickness of a five-shilling piece, color it with the yolk of an egg and bake it in a cake tin in a hot oven until it is a good color, then take it out and cut it into four equal circular pieces.
Have ready some well-whipped cream and flavor it with Maraschino, put a thick layer of this on one of the rounds of pastry, then cover it with the next round, on which also put a layer of cream, and so on until you come to the last round, which forms the top of the cake. Then split some almonds and color them in the oven, cover the top of the cake with icing sugar flavored with orange, and decorate the top with the almonds and preserved cherries.
These traditional recipes for Italian cream cake are taken from the book "The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste: Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes" by Mrs. W. G. Waters, publisher unknown, circa 1905.