Sift the flour and baking powder, add the semolina and salt. Separate the eggs and beat the egg whites until stiff. In another bowl, beat the butter with about 1/3 of the sugar, the vanilla sugar and the egg yolk until lightly frothy. Alternately mix in the flour and semolina mixture and egg white. Stir in the almonds, orange juice and zest.
Put the dough in the greased springform pan and bake in the oven preheated to 175 ° C for 45-60 minutes on the middle rack.
Put the rest of the sugar with the brandy, the lemon juice and 1/8 liter of water in a saucepan and boil vigorously (like syrup) and soak the finished cake with it.