A Floating Island

Name: A Floating Island
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: raspberry or red currant jelly; quince; eggs; wine; cream; sugar; lemon peel

Scots Fashion

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Scots Kitchen

By F. Marian McNeill

Published 2015

About

‘And for a Floating Island, or a Hedgehog, we could never pretend to ony sic grandery at the Cleikum.’—Meg Dods, in the Annals of the Cleikum Club.

Ingredients

eggs
quince
raspberry or red currant jelly
cream
wine
sugar

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Scotland
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Three spoonfuls of guava quince, or raspberry or red currant jelly and the whites of as many eggs; beat them together one way till the spoon will stand erect; pile it upon cream beaten up with wine and sugar and a little grated lemon peel.