Another of Mrs Crocombe’s recipes for using spare or leftover cake, this is slightly different to most sponge cake puddings of the time, which tended to be simple concoctions of layered sponge and flavoured custard. There were a number of other names for such puddings, the best known being cabinet pudding. The detail that the outer, darker part of the sponge cake should be alternated with the lighter inside is Avis’ original recipe, and is typical of the thought which went
