The Linzer Torte is said to be the oldest-known cake in the world. For a long time a recipe from 1696 in the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known. The Austrian traveller Franz Hölzlhuber in the 1850s allegedly brought the Linzer Torte to Milwaukee, whence the recipe spread over the United States. […]
Since I moved from Italy to the US twenty years ago, I tried to recreate the flavors that I had left behind.