Name: Plain Cake and Fruit Desert
Ingredients: plain cake; juicy acid stewed fruit (such as cherries or currants)

Plain Cake and Fruit Desert

Ingredients

plain cake
juicy acid stewed fruit (such as cherries or currants)

Directions

Slice the plain cake.
Place one slice in a saucer.
Pour over half a teacup (about ⅓ cup) or more of the stewed fruit.

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.

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Plain Cake and Fruit Desert