tipsy cake

Tipsy cake was a great favourite of his.

There was a tipsy cake and cheese and fruit and coffee.

The tipsy cake originated in the mid-18th century.

In the Southern US, a variant of trifle is known as tipsy cake.

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A tipsy cake is a sweet dessert cake, made originally of "fresh sponge cakes soaked in good sherry and good brandy."

Tipsy cake was also humorously called Tipsy Parson, because it presumably lured many a Sunday-visiting preacher "off the wagon".

Supper consisted of "elaborate dainties" of beef, mutton, chicken, pork, turkey and fifteen different pastries, including Deseret and Tipsy cakes.

As a variety of the English trifle, tipsy cake is popular in the American South, often served after dinner as a dessert or at Church socials and neighborhood gatherings.

There will be 19th-century dances, and a midnight "collation" in the boardroom with 19th-century recipes from "Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook," including lobster salad, sausage-and-beef pies, tipsy cake and Christmas pudding.

It was very good broth, hot and lightly spiced, and the tea was pleasantly minty, but she was not left alone with her meal, and her thoughts that perhaps she could have taken a little of the tipsy cake, for long.

Richard Vines, whilst writing for Bloomberg, advised readers to not be put off the hype; and while the courses aren't as life changing as those served at The Fat Duck, there are stand out dishes such as the meat fruit and the tipsy cake.