Gâteau de Pommes

This is one of the few recipes in Avis’ manuscript book for which a definite source is identifiable. She copied it from Eliza Acton’s best-selling Modern Cookery for Private Families, which was one of the rare books of the time not mainly plagiarised from other sources. Acton was the first recipe writer to give a separate list of ingredients, at the bottom of each recipe, which was the giveaway in identifying this and three o