Name: A Nice Dessert
Ingredients: stale cake, cut into squares or strips; small piece of preserved citron; cream; boiled custard; whipped cream or egg whites; bits of fruit or jelly

A Nice Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Place pieces of stale cake in a deep bowl.
Add chopped preserved citron to the cake.
Pour a little cream over the cake and let it soak for a while.
Fill the bowl with boiled custard.
Top with whipped cream or egg whites.
Garnish with bits of fruit or jelly and serve cold.

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.