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From The Saint Louis cook book (1908).

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A historical recipe

The Saint Louis cook book, by St. Louis. [from old catalog] Missouri Baptist sanitarium (1908).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a glass of sherry wine
  2. 1 cup milk

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Cut stale sponge cake into small slices, lady fingers are best, spread jam or jelly on them — -raspberry jam is especially good — arrange pyramid style in a pretty dish and pour over this a glass of sherry wine or sweetened lemon juice, cover ch)sely for an hour, then pour over this a thin boiled custard made of the yolks of the eggs in pro[jortion of 1 yolk to 1 cup milk.
  2. Beat up the whites of eggs with powdered sugar imtil quite stiff and heap on top.
  3. Serve with cream.
  4. Very good.
  5. Mrs.
  6. H.
  7. R.
  8. Lyle, St.
  9. Louis.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From The Saint Louis cook book (1908), printed page 142, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/saintlouiscookbo00miss

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.