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Delicious Trifle

A historical recipe from The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914).

A historical recipe

The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #49707.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #49707 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49707). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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New Zealand. Associated with New Zealand by the book is about New Zealand cookery (Cooking, New Zealand); the recipe itself names no place (confidence 0.4). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Cut up stale sponge cakes in dish, spread over with jam (raspberry preferred), then make a pint custard, (as per direction for Custard), and pour when cooked over the cakes.
  2. Let stand till cold, then spread whipped cream on top.
  3. This dish is improved by adding a little sherry or wine to the cut sponges.
  4. EGG DRINK (Without Eggs).
  5. Two large cups of milk;
  6. take sufficient to mix smooth 1 heaped teaspoon of Edmonds’ Custard Powder.
  7. Place remainder in saucepan with 2 teaspoonfuls sugar;
  8. when it boils add mixture, stir and place immediately into glasses (grate nutmeg on top to taste).