This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Sheets of sponge cake partly saturated with rum and set in a pan of cold boiled custard, For the cake make this:
2 eggs.
6 tablespoonfuls of water.
1 cup of flour - 4 ounces.
1 teaspoonful baking powder.
Separate the eggs - the whites in a bowl or dish, the yolks in the mixing pan. Put the sugar and water in with the yolks, and beat them till they are a thick yellow froth. Mix the powder in the flour, add that and stir up well. Whip the whites firm, add them last.
Grease and flour 2 jelly cake pans, divide the mixture into them and bake of a very light color. When done place the sheets of cake one on the other in a pan and pour 1/2 cup of rum or brandy into them with a teaspoon. Have ready 2 cups of custard and pour around. Cut in 8 and serve like pudding and sauce.
Cost of material - sugar and flour 3, eggs 4, powder 1, rum 12, custard 9, 29c, for 8 dishes 3 or 4 cents an order.
 
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