From Mrs Frazer's 1804 fourth edition - An Italian Pyramid. Decreasing circles of puff pastry layered with preserved fruits - apples, raspberries, pears, apricots and blackberries, topped with a preserved orange "cut in imitation of a pine apple with a top of bay leaves". This was fun to make! 🍊🍍
Many years later, seven headless bodies were found buried nearby, suggesting the story is true.
My downstairs neighbour feeds the crows and now this one sits in her garden and looks in her window, waiting to be fed.
...with the apples and finish with another layer of buttered bread on top. Fire in a moderate oven for 45 minutes, then turn out onto a plate. Mrs Frazer doesn't say to demolish it with custard, but we did. 🍎
An apple loaf, from Mrs Frazer's 4th edition, 1804. Line a tin with crustless slices of bread, buttered on the outside and packed closely together. Pare, core and chop a dozen apples and stew them with a little butter, wine and water, then add some lemon zest and cinnamon. Fill up the tin with...