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Fluffy Walnut Cake

Cuisine: Jewish
Courses: Dessert
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

3/4 cup 177mlMatzo meal
3/4 cup 177mlPotato starch
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlSalt
6   Egg yolks
1 3/4 cups 346g / 12ozSugar
1 cup 237mlOrange juice
1 1/2 cups 355mlGround walnuts
1 tablespoon 15mlGrated lemon rind
6   Egg whites - stiffly beaten

Recipe Instructions

Mix the matzo meal, potato starch and salt together.

Beat the egg yolks until thick; gradually add the sugar, beating until lemon colored. Add the matzo-meal mixture alternately with the orange juice. Fold in the walnuts and lemon rind, and then the egg whites. Turn into a 9-inch tube pan.

Bake in a 325 degree oven 1 hour or until browned and the cake shrinks away from the sides of the pan. Cool on a cake rack. Serves 6 to 8.

Source:
THE ART OF JEWISH COOKING by Jennie Grossinger - Published by Bantam Books, Inc. (c) 1958

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