Tipsy Cake

Ingredients

• 1 moulded sponge-or Savoy-cake
• sufficient sweet wine or sherry to soak it
• 6 tablespoonful brandy
• 2 oz sweet almonds
• 1 pint rich custard
• TIPSY CAKE.]

Instructions

1. Procure a cake that is three or four days old,--either sponge, Savoy, or rice answering for the purpose of a tipsy cake.
2. Cut the bottom of the cake level, to make it stand firm in the dish; make a small hole in the centre, and pour in and over the cake sufficient sweet wine or sherry, mixed with the above proportion of brandy, to soak it nicely.
3. When the cake is well soaked, blanch and cut the almonds into strips, stick them all over the cake, and pour round it a good custard, made by recipe No. 1423, allowing 8 eggs instead of 5 to the pint of milk.
4. The cakes are sometimes crumbled and soaked, and a whipped cream heaped over them, the same as for trifles.