Kopenhai
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 each oranges rind grated only
- 2 each egg yolks
- 2 1/2 cups flour, all-purpose
- 1 pinch salt
- 6 large eggs separated
- 1/2 cup sugar, superfine
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 cup flour, all-purpose
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups almonds ground
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup butter ,
- 2 cups sugar granulated
- 1 cup water
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- Cream butter and sugar with grated orange rind until light and fluffy; beat in egg yolks.
- Sift flour and salt into butter mixture to form a soft dough.
- Lightly grease a round 20 cm dish.
- As pastry moulds easily any tears can be pressed together.
- An alternative is to put pastry in dish without rolling, and press it over base and sides with fingers.
- Even out by rolling with a straight-sided glass.
- Bake in a moderately hot oven for 15 to 20 minutes until lightly coloured.
- Remove and cool.
- To make almond filling, beat egg yolks, sugar and almond essence until thick and light.
- Sift flour with baking powder and combine with ground almonds.
- Fold this lightly into beaten egg yolks.
- Beat egg whites with salt until stiff but not dry and fold lightly into almond mixture.
- Pour into pastry-lined dish.
- On a flat surface butter a fillo pastry sheet, top with another and butter.
- Continue until all sheets are used.
- Leave a top sheet unbuttered.
- Lift onto top of almond filling and trim edges of fillo in line with pastry crust, using kitchen scissors.
- Brush top with remaining butter.
- With a sharp knife or razor blade make slits through the top 2 or 3 sheets running the length of the dish and spacing them 4 cm (1 1/2 inches) apart.
- Bake in a moderate oven for 45 minutes until top is golden and filling is set.
- Meanwhile dissolve sugar in water over medium heat, add fruit rinds, lemon juice and cinnamon bark and bring to the boil.
- Boil for 10 minutes, strain and cool.
- When torte is cooked, cut through slits in pastry down to the bottom crust.
- Pour cooled syrup over hot torte, leave until cool.
- Cut diagonally to give diamond-shaped pieces for serving.
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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/kopenhai-46409 (may not work)