Stone Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

  • About

This dish is mentioned in a seventeenth-century description of cold sweets. I obtained the following recipe from Hampshire. It should be made several hours before it is required and kept in the refrigerator until wanted. The combination of the cream and the sharp juice is excellent.

Ingredients

  • 12 teaspoons apricot jam
  • Juice and grated rind of ½ lemon
  • ½ cup

Method

Put 2 teaspoons of jam in each of 6 wine glasses or glass custard cups. Mix the lemon juice, grated rind and the wine and put a