Noel Coward has told us how ‘while adding some liquor to the Tipsy Cake,’ Mrs Wentworth-Brewster discovered her life had just begun. In the eighteenth century, Tipsy Cake was another name for Brandy Trifle, and Eliza Acton states that ‘the old-fashioned mode of preparing this dish was to soak a light sponge or Savoy cake in as much good French
