Too Many Eggs
Yesterday I noticed I had too many eggs. My overly producing chickens haven't noticed yet that it's winter, it's cold and they should slow down. Since even after giving away a lot of them, the eggs were still too many, I decided to make an eggs-consuming cake, here we call it Torta Margherita or Pan di Spagna (Spanish bread). It requires 8 eggs, 300gr of potato starch, 300gr of sugar, half an orange's juice, baking powder, some cinnamon, dried vanilla and grated orange skin. I whipped the whites with half of the sugar till hard. Then I whipped the yolks with the other half of the sugar till they doubled and became creamy and whitish. I mixed them together in a very big bowl carefully stirring with slow bottom-up movements.
I added the sifted potato starch bit by bit always carefully stirring as before. At the end I added a pinch of baking powder, half an orange juice, a pich of cinnamon, vanilla and the orange skin. Mixed carefully as before.
Then I cooked it in the static oven at 180ºC for an hour. It's important to start with a cold oven, turning it on only after putting the cake inside. After an hour I checked if it was ready and then left it on a grid to cool down. The result is a very big cake that lasts for days (not in my home
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best eaten with any sort of tea or caffelatte. If you want to reduce the doses you must half everything and use 4 eggs.
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