2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
10 eggs, well beaten
sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 cups flour
4 slices candied citron peel

Cream butter and sugar,add eggs a little at a time, and fold in sifted flour and salt.

Pour into a greased baking pan, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in a pre-heated oven. When batter has set, place thin slices of citron peel on top without removing pan from oven; bake about 1 hour in moderate oven (350 degrees F).

This recipe was taken from "The Complete Italian Cook Book: La Cucina" by Rose L. Sorce. It was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1953. For the entire copyright-free cookbook see www.archive.org.... Photo: Mary Melfi.

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