Sponge Cake Meringue Recipe

Butter well a pudding dish, cover the bottom with slices of stale sponge

cake about an inch thick, fit closely together. Beat the yolks of three

eggs with three teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar, add the grated rind of

half and the juice of one orange, the juice of half a small lemon, two

tablespoonfuls of melted butter and stir in soda as large as a pea into

a cup and a half of milk, add this to the orange and egg and stir well

together. Pour three-quarters of this mixture over the cake, set the

dish in a pan of boiling water in the oven, and when the cake has

absorbed the custard and no longer floats, add the remainder of the

custard. While the pudding is baking make a meringue of three whites of

eggs beaten to a stiff froth and three-quarters of a cup of granulated

sugar, flavor with the grated rind of half an orange and a few drops of

orange extract. Spread quickly over the pudding and bake fifteen

minutes.