Caramel Cream

This recipe is given by Miss Eleanor L. Jenkinson, sister of the late Cambridge University Librarian in The Ocklye Cookery Book [1909]. Miss Jenkinson says: ‘It is amusing to remember that this recipe, which came from a country house in Aberdeenshire in the ’sixties, was offered to the kitchens of Trinity College, Cambridge, by an undergraduate, and rejected with contempt. When the undergraduate became a Fellow, just