Trifle

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (12)
base
custard
topping and decoration
Instructions (16)
  1. Put three large maccaroons in the middle of your dish.
  2. Pour as much white wine over them as they will drink.
  3. Put a quart of cream into a pot.
  4. Add sugar to make it sweet.
  5. Rub sugar upon the rind of a lemon to fetch out the essence.
  6. Mill the cream to a strong froth.
  7. Lay as much froth upon a sieve as will fill the dish you intend to put your trifle in.
  8. Put the remainder of your cream into a tossing-pan.
  9. Add a stick of cinnamon.
  10. Add the yolks of four eggs, well beaten.
  11. Add sugar to your taste.
  12. Set them over a gentle fire, stir it one way till it is thick.
  13. Take it off the fire.
  14. Pour the thickened mixture upon your maccaroons.
  15. When it is cold, put on your frothed cream.
  16. Lay round it different coloured sweetmeats and small hot comfits, and figures or flowers.
Original Text
To make a TRIFLE. PUT three large maccaroons in the middle of your dish, pour as much white wine over them as they will drink, then take a quart of cream, put in as much sugar as will make it sweet, rub your sugar upon the rind of a lemon, to fetch out the essence, put your cream into a pot, mill it to a strong froth, lay as much froth upon a sieve as will fill the dish you intend to put your trifle in, put the remainder of your cream into a tossing-pan, with a stick of cinnamon, the yolks of four eggs well beat, and sugar to your taste, set them over a gentle fire, stir it one way till it is thick, then take it off the fire, pour it upon your maccaroons, when it is cold put on your frothed cream, lay round it different coloured sweetmeats, and small hot comfits, and fi- gures or flowers.
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