Recipe - Vinaterta

1 cup Butter
2 cup Sugar
6 Eggs
One half cup Sweet Cream
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 teaspoon Almond Flavoring
6 cup Flour
4 teaspoon Baking Powder

FILLING
2 pound Prunes
1 One half cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Cardamom Seeds; Crushed,
Pitted

Make filling first: Boil pitted prunes and add sugar and crushed cardamom
seeds. Cook until sugar dissolves. Cool. Beat well or put through food
chopper.

Dough: Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time and beat well. Add
cream and flavorings. Add flour sifted with baking powder. Blend well.
Divide dough into 5 or 6 equal parts. Roll out and bake a layer on cookie
sheet at 375F for 8 to 10 minutes.

This dough will make one large (cookie sheet size) torte of 5 or 6 layers,
or 29" tortes five or six layers each.

When all the layers are baked and cooled, put together with prune mixture
and ice with almond flavored butter icing, if desired. Makes 1 large or 2
small

Formatted by Carole Walberg

Recipe by: "Homemade Heritage"

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by "Bob & Carole Walberg"
walbergr@mb.sympatico.ca on Apr 10, 1998