Linzer Torte
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The Linzer Torte (or Linzertorte) is an Austrian tart (in some ways closer to a cake) with a dough of about 200g flour, 200g butter, 100g sugar, 1 egg, and 100g nuts, usually hazelnuts or almonds, and a filling of red currant jam, covered by a lattice of dough strips. Where red currant is not readily available, raspberry is used in a "Linzer Torte" variety found most frequently outside of Austria.
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The Linzer Torte, named for the city of Linz, Austria, is the oldest-known torte or cake in the world. For long time a recipe from 1696 in the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known. In 2005, however, Waltraud Feißner, the library director of the Upper Austrian Landesmuseum, found an even older recipe from 1653 in Codex 35/31 in the archive of the Admont Abbey.<ref>http://www.landesmuseum.at/de/lm/pages.php?page_id=134 (7. Nov. 2006)</ref>
Johann Konrad Vogel (1796 - 1883) began the mass production of the cake that made it famous around the world
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[edit] References
- Iaia, Sarah Kelly. Festive Baking: Holiday Classics in the Swiss, German, and Austrian Traditions. Doubleday, 1988.
