Linzer Torte
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The Linzer Torte (or Linzertorte) is an Austrian layer cake with a dough of nuts, usually almonds, and a filling of jam, usually raspberry[1] or red currant, covered by a lattice of dough strips.
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 Faißner, the library director of the Upper Austrian Landesmuseum and author of the book "Wie man die Linzer Dortten macht" ("How to make the Linzer Torte") found an even older recipe from 1653 in Codex 35/31 in the archive of the Admont Abbey.[2]
Johann Konrad Vogel (1796 - 1883) began the mass production of the cake that made it famous around the world.
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- ^ Iaia, Sarah Kelly. Festive Baking: Holiday Classics in the Swiss, German, and Austrian Traditions. Doubleday, 1988.
- ^ http://www.landesmuseum.at/de/lm/pages.php?page_id=134 (7. Nov. 2006)
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