after her coronation in 1837? Have a parliamentary meeting? Have tea with all the royal dignitaries? No – she gave her dog, Dash, a bath.
Ingredients – 6oz of stale sponge cake or bruised ratafias, 6 oranges, 1 pint of milk, 6 eggs, ½ lb of sugar, paste.
Mode – bruise the sponge cake or ratafias into fine crumbs and pour upon them the milk, which should be boiling. Rub the rinds of 2 of the oranges on sugar and add this with the juice of the remainder, to the other ingredients. Beat up the eggs, stir them in, sweeten to taste, and put the mixture into a pie dish previously lined with paste. Bake for rather more than ½ hour; turn it out of the dish, strew sifted flour over and serve. Mrs Beeton
JL Note: The quantities for this filling will actually fill a deep pie dish, but we always make them in the shallow pie crusts – this recipe will fill three of those.