Chestnut pound cake

Ingredients

• 200 g flour
• 180 g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 200 g butter
• 1/3 libra chestnuts
• You will need : more than 50g of sugar, yellow food colour

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Preparation

• Soak chestnuts in hot water for an hour. Remove shell and dark skin (with knife). Boil chestnuts in pan with just enough water to cover the nuts for 10 minutes.
• Drain water and put water again, and then boil with sugar and 4-5 drops of yellow food colouring. Cook it for 20 minutes.
• To make pound cake :
  Separate the yolks from the eggs and save both. Beat the whites until firm and add 1/3 of sugar. Continue to beat until the sugar is well mixed. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks with the remaining sugar until the mix becomes white.
• Fold in half of the egg whites. Add half of the flour by cutting it in. Fold in the remaining egg whites. Add the rest of the flour by cutting.
• Melt butter and add to the mix, cutting it in, add chestnuts, pour into loaf pan about half full. Bake in the oven at 365 degrees for 25-30 minutes.