Scots Trifle

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By F. Marian McNeill

Published 2015

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Traditional Recipe

Ingredients

  • stale sponge cakes or rice cake
  • ratafias
  • raspberry or strawberry jam
  • lemon rind
  • sherr

Method

Split six individual sponge cakes and spread thickly with jam. Put together again and arrange in a shallow glass dish. Pound about eighteen ratafia biscuits and strew over the sponges. Sprinkle with the grated rind of half a lemon. Over this pour a gill of sherry (not too dry) and two tablespoonfuls of brandy, then three-quarters of a