Name: Zuppa di Inglese
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: A few drops of red food colouring; 3 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk; 50 g (2 oz) caster sugar; A plain Madeira cake, sliced; 4 tablespoons Marsala; 3 tablespoons Amaretto di Saronno; 900 ml (1½ pints) milk; 2 tablespoons cornflour; 2 strips of lemon zest; 50 g (2 oz) dark chocolate

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd on Italy

By Keith Floyd

Published 1994

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Ingredients

For The Custard

3 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
50 g (2

Method

Beat together the eggs, egg yolk and sugar and put them into a saucepan. Blend the cornflour with 3 or 4 tablespoons of the milk and add it, with the remaining milk, to the saucepan. Add the strips of lemon zest. Heat this mixture gently, stirring it all the time with a wooden spoon, until it just b