History & The Arts
Olde dessert recipes
...become a complex confection of wine-soaked biscuit, topped with custard, syllabub and a scattering of comfits. In fact, all the major foods of the dessert course served up in one dish. The following is Elizabeth Raffald's recipe in her own words. It uses a syllabub topping made from the recipe above. To make a trifle Put three large macaroons in the middle of your dish,...