This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Ingredients. - Twelve ounces of stale savoy or sponge cake, four ounces of butter warmed, about four ounces of shredded mixed peel, two ounces of castor sugar, six eggs, about one-half pint of boiling milk, one glass of sherry or Marsala.
Method. - Pass the cake through a fine wire sieve, add to it all the ingredients except the whites of eggs, and beat well. Whisk the whites of eggs stiffly, stir them lightly in, and pour the mixture into a buttered pie-dish. Bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. Or bake the mixture before adding the whites of eggs, which afterwards pile in a rocky form, dredge liberally with castor sugar, and bake until set and very lightly browned.
 
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