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

There are recipes all over the Internet for "sand cake." Most of them
use something else to mimic the potato starch which isn't as readily
available as corn starch and cake flour. I'll bet if you kept paging
through recipes you'd find one that uses potato starch. I've never made
or had sand cake myself, but I'm familiar with sable cookies which have
that close grain you're talking about.

http://www.freerecipe.org/Dessert/Ba...recipe-cdr.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~knappt/recipes/025.html
http://www.mindspring.com/~cborgnaes...l#Pound%20Cake
http://www.floras-hideout.com/recipe...andy_Sand_Cake

--Lia

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

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.....

(Franfogel) writes:

>Google didn't help a great deal! Thanks.

Are you using the "advanced" feature?
I found more than 500 recipes for Sand Cake on Google. Here's the link:

http://tinyurl.com/3jqd7
or
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=re...-8859-1&c2coff
=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=sand+cake&as_oq=&as_e q=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filety
pe=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i &as_sitesearch=&safe=images

Connie
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On 28 Aug 2004 23:18:40 GMT, (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

Hey Fran!
Which Google did you "Google"? My Google here in America turned up
14,700 results while searching for "Sand Cake" in the Google "Groups"
Search Engine!

Bill