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Lyons branded cakes included treacle tarts, Lyons Bakewell tart, Lyons Battenberg, and Lyons trifle sponges. [6] To the public, J. Lyons & Co. were best known for their chain of teashops which opened from 1894 and finally closed in 1981, and for the Lyons Corner Houses in the West End of London. [7]
Place 1 1/2 c. cake cubes in the bottom of a large trifle dish. Top with a scant 3/4 c. compote and spread in an even layer. Top with one-quarter of whipped cream, then another layer of cake ...
It has a derivative in the verb inzuppare, which means 'to dunk'; as the sponge cake or ladyfingers are dipped in liqueur, the dish is called zuppa. Similarly, thick bean with vegetable stews and fish or shellfish stews are properly described as zuppa di verdure and zuppa di pesce, respectively.
Trifle is a layered dessert of English origin. The usual ingredients are a thin layer of sponge fingers or sponge cake soaked in sherry or another fortified wine, a fruit element (fresh or jelly), custard and whipped cream layered in that ascending order in a glass dish. [1]
Whip the cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form. In a separate bowl, beat the mascarpone and fold it into the cream. Add the orange zest and juice and vanilla extract or paste and sift in the ...
The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first non-yeasted cakes, and the earliest attested sponge cake recipe in English is found in a book by the British poet Gervase Markham, The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman (1615). [4] The cake was more like a cracker: thin and crisp.
They contain more flour than the typical sponge cake. The mixture is piped through a pastry bag in short lines onto sheets, [3] giving the biscuits their notable shape. Before baking, powdered sugar is usually sifted over the top [3] to give a soft crust. The finished ladyfingers are usually layered into a dessert such as tiramisu or trifle.
Nigella Lawson was born in 1960 in Wandsworth, London, [4] one of the daughters of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932–2023), [5] a business and finance journalist who later became a Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's government, and his first wife, Vanessa Salmon (1936–1985), [6] a socialite [7] and the heiress to the J. Lyons and Co. fortune. [8]