Franfogel wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a cake called Sand Cake or Sand Torte? It is, I believe,
> Polish in origin and is made with potato starch, which gives the cake a very
> fine, close grain. Google didn't help a great deal! Thanks.
>
> Fran

My Polish cookery book only gives one recipe with 'Sand' in the English
title: a Sand Baba

No potato starch but here's the recipe anyway:

From 'The Art of Polish Cooking'

1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla or rum extract
1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder

Cream the butter with the sugar. Add the eggs one at a time beating at
high speed. Add the milk and the flavorings, beat 3 minutes more. Add
the flour and baking powder, beat 5 minutes more.
Bake at 375 F for 50 minutes in a well buttered baba pan which has been
sprinkled with bread crumbs.

A search on 'sandtorte' gave a lot of German recipes, but they are
mostly a sort of madeira/pound cake. Except when they are based on
finely-ground nuts.....