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To Make a Trifle

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To Make a Trifle

To Make a Trifle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. PUT slices of Savoy cake or Naples biscuit at the bottom of a deep dish; wet it with white wine, and fill the dish nearly to the top with rich boiled custard; season half a pint of cream with white wine and sugar; whip it to a froth — as it rises, take it lightly off, and lay it on the custard; pile it up high and tastily — de- corate it with preserves of any kind, cut so thin as not to bear the froth down by its weight.

By Mary Randolph (1762–1828). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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