This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Choose a small, sound pineapple, cut it in two, roll a towel round one-half and lay it in the ice-box for further use. Pare and peal neatly the other half; then cut it into small and very thin slices; lay them in a vessel with two ounces of powdered sugar, mixing lightly for one minute. Arrange the slices carefully over the marmalade in the six tarts, prepared as for peach tarts (No. 1106); then finish, and serve exactly the same.
 
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