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Cake Alla Tolentina


Ingredients:  

1 medium size sponge-cake

jam or red currant jelly
1/2 cup Brandy or Maraschino
cream
pine-apple.


Preparation:


Make a medium-sized sponge-cake; when cold cut off the top and scoop out all the middle and leave only the brown case; cover the outside with a good coating of jam or red currant jelly, and decorate it with some of the white of the cake cut into fancy
shapes. 

Soak rest of the crumb in brandy or Maraschino and mix it with quarter of a pint of whipped cream and bits of pineapple cut into small dice; 

Fill the cake with this; pile it up high in the centre and decorate the top with the brown top cut into fancy shapes.