Floating Island

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Have the bowl nearly full of syllabub, made with milk, white wine, and sugar.
  2. Beat the whites of six new laid eggs to a strong froth.
  3. Then mix with it raspberry or strawberry marmalade enough to flavour and colour it.
  4. Lay the froth lightly on the syllabub, first putting in some slices of cake.
  5. Raise it in little mounds and garnish with something light.

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