- Linzer torte
The Linzer Torte (or Linzertorte) is an Austrian and Hungarian
Tart orPie made with a very short, crumbly pastry of flour, butter and ground nuts (usuallyalmond s), with a filling ofplum butter orjam (evenraspberry [Iaia, Sarah Kelly. "Festive Baking: Holiday Classics in the Swiss, German, and Austrian Traditions." Doubleday, 1988.] orred currant ). It is covered by a lattice of dough strips and decorated with sliced almonds.It resembles a large cookie (or biscuit in British usage) and indeed is often made like small tarts or cookies in North American bakeries.
The Linzer Torte, named after the city of
Linz ,Austria , is the oldest-known torte or cake in the world. For a long time a recipe from1696 in theVienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known. In2005 , however, Waltraud Faißner, the library director of theUpper Austria n Landesmuseum and author of the book "Wie man die Linzer Dortten macht" ("How to make the Linzer Torte") found an even older recipe from1653 in Codex 35/31 in the archive of theAdmont Abbey . [http://www.landesmuseum.at/de/lm/pages.php?page_id=134 (7. Nov. 2006)]Johann Konrad Vogel (1796 -1883 ) started the mass production of the cake that made it famous around the world.Notes
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