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Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie by Eliza Leslie
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Eat it with wine, sugar, and nutmeg.

The whey, drained from the curd, is an excellent drink for
invalids.


A TRIFLE.

A quart of cream.
A quarter of a pound of loaf sugar, powdered.
Half a pint of white wine and Half a gill of brandy mixed.
Eight maccaroons, or more if you choose.
Four small sponge-cakes or Naples biscuit.
Two ounces of blanched sweet almonds, pounded in a mortar.
One ounce of blanched bitter almonds or peach-kernels.
The juice and grated peel of two lemons.
A nutmeg, grated.
A glass of noyau.
A pint of rich baked custard, made of the yolks of eggs.

Pound the sweet and bitter almonds to a smooth paste, adding a
little rose-water as you pound them.

Grate the yellow peels of the lemons, and squeeze the juice into a
saucer.

Break the sponge cake and maccaroons into small pieces, mix them
with the almonds, and lay them in the bottom of a large glass
bowl. Grate a nutmeg over them, and the juice and peel of the
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