Fruit Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the sponge cake into ½-inch slices and line a pudding basin with them.
Stew the fruit in a jar until tender and sweeten to taste.
Pour both the fruit and syrup into the basin.
Cover with slices of cake, press down with a plate and weight until cold.
Serve with a good custard sauce.
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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