linzer torte

English

Noun

linzer torte (countable and uncountable, plural linzer tortes or linzer torten)

  1. Alternative form of Linzertorte.
    • 1873, [Anne Letitia Schiller], “‘Linzer Torte’—Linzer Cake”, in German National Cookery for English Kitchens. [], London: Chapman and Hall, [], →OCLC, chapter XII (Torten), page 237:
      There are many ways of compounding linzer torten, of nearly the same ingiedients.
    • 2013, Siri Mitchell, “Lucy”, in Unrivaled: A Novel, Bloomington, Minn.: Bethany House, →ISBN, page 8:
      Dear, sweet home. I wanted to embrace it all, every piece of it. There were dozens of things I couldn’t wait to do. And there were a hundred things I wanted to tell of: eating linzer torte in Austria; viewing glaciers in Switzerland; drinking coffee at the cafés in Italy.
    • 2017, Tamara Shopsin, “A Seven-Day Pillbox”, in Arbitrary Stupid Goal, New York, N.Y.: MCD, →ISBN, page 48:
      The Store sold baked goods from lots of people over the years. All of them lived within a few blocks. Lester worked for the board of education and baked linzer tortes on the side.