Caledonian Cream

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Classic Scots Cookery

By Catherine Brown

Published 2003

  • About

An easy mix of lively flavours that were first combined by Mrs Dalgairns (circa 1829), the nineteenth-century cookery writer, when she mixed minced marmalade, brandy and the juice of a lemon through a couple of pints of cream.

Ingredients

  • 2 large sweet Spanish navel oranges
  • 300 ml (10 fl oz) whipping cream

Method

Making

Strip the zest from the oranges with a zester into the bowl of a food processor. Cut off all the white pith and remove each segment of the orange with a sharp knife, avoiding the white pith. Squeeze out any remaining juice from the leftover pith and put it in the base of a glass serving dish. Add the marmalade and brandy to the orange zest in the processor and blend until smoot