Venus Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 sponge cakes
• A little jam
• 6 ratafias
• 2 tablespoonfuls sherry
• 1 gill cream
• 0.5 pint milk
• Sugar
• vanilla
• 0.5 oz. gelatine
• 0.5 gill water

Method

1. 1

   Line and decorate a mould.

2. 2

   Slice the sponge cakes, spread with jam, and cut them in small pieces; add the ratafias, and soak well with sherry.

3. 3

   Whip the cream, and mix it with the milk, sugar, flavourings, and dissolved gelatine.

4. 4

   Half fill the mould with the cream mixture, when almost set place the sponge cakes in the centre, and fill up the mould with the cream mixture.

5. 5

   Turn out when set and decorate with jelly.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for high-class cookery (1912) by Edinburgh School of Cookery, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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