A Floating Island
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a dish halfway with rich custard.
Place a round slice of stale sponge cake in the center.
Cover the cake with red jelly.
Add a smaller round of cake on top, then more sweetmeats, forming a pyramid.
Whip sweetened cream and place it on top as the summit.
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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