5 traditional english cakes Recipes

cake (a madeira wine sliced into 1/2-inch thick slices), whole milk, double cream, egg yolks, cornflour, caster sugar, raspberry jam, sweet sherry

trifle sponge cakes (or a ready-made lb cake or similar), english custard , made from bird custard powder, whipping cream (heavy ), frozen raspberries (better than fresh), strawberry jam, peach slices or 2 very ripe fresh es, skinned and sliced, cooking sherry, sliced almonds, toasted

plain flour, salt, grated nutmeg, tps ground cinnamon, rind of 1 lemon, grated, glace cherries, chopped dried citrus peel, golden raisins, plain raisins, currants, butter, golden caster sugar or finely ground demerrara sugar, eggs, beaten, milk, almond paste (marzipan), apricot jam

egg yolks, whole milk (1 cup plus 4 tbsp), sugar, whipping cream, cornstarch , dissolved in 4 tbsp water, vanilla, nutmeg, ground, whipping cream, poundcake (two days old) or 1 -2 small sponge cake (two days old), cream sherry (use a good 1), raspberry jam, frozen raspberries, thawed and drained (not traditional)