As we're in the middle of the festive season, things are a little busy with all the entertaining.

由於我們正處於節日期間，所有的娛樂活動都有點忙。

I like to have a few things in the store cover that I can turn into dishes for dinner to make life a little easier.

我喜歡在商店裡蓋上一些東西，可以變成晚餐的菜餚，使生活更輕鬆。

Should there be unexpected guests.

如果有不速之客。

Today, I'm making Gertrude Allah Clem from one of my favorite recipe books, written by Eliza Acton.

今天，我正在製作格特魯德-阿拉-克萊姆，這本書是我最喜歡的食譜之一，由伊麗莎-阿克頓寫的。

For this recipe, you will need s slightly stale sponge cake, eggs, sugar cream, a selection of preserves, crystallized fruit and flowers, Armand paste and food coloring.

在這個配方中，你將需要一個稍顯陳舊的海綿蛋糕、雞蛋、糖霜、精選的蜜餞、結晶的水果和花朵、Armand糊和食用色素。

This recipe is one of many I have for using up stale sponge cakes.

這個菜單是我用過的許多過期海綿蛋糕中的一個。

I always make a second sponge cake.

我總是做第二個海綿蛋糕。

Whenever I make one, I'm going to slice the cake horizontally with equal slices.

每當我做一個，我都會把蛋糕橫向切成相等的片狀。

And then, for each slice, I'll just cut out the center, then spread different colored jams over each slice.

然後，對於每一片，我就把中間的部分切掉，然後在每一片上塗上不同顏色的果醬。

It's an ideal way of using up some of the half jars in the back of the cupboard.

這是利用櫥櫃後面的一些半罐子的理想方法。

I have blackberry, lime and lemon, strawberry and apricot, and then once I've spread them, I'll stack it back up again.

我有黑莓、青檸和檸檬、草莓和杏子，然後一旦我把它們攤開，我又會把它堆起來。

This time of year is really very busy, and there's only four of us.

每年的這個時候真的非常忙，而我們只有四個人。

So we have to be more organized than usual.

所以我們必須比平時更有組織。

After all, we don't just make breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper for Lord and Lady Bre Brick and their guests.

畢竟，我們不只是為布雷克勳爵和夫人以及他們的客人做早餐、午餐、晚餐和晚餐。

But also four meals for just under 30.

但也有四頓飯，只需不到30元。

Indoor servants and the upper servants and the lower servants have different meals.

室內的僕人和上層的僕人和下層的僕人有不同的飲食。

Okay.

好的。

I'll keep these bits, perhaps for a trifle.

我將保留這些碎片，也許是為了一個小事。

Mhm.

嗯。

Okay.

好的。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mm.

嗯。

Yeah, yeah.

是的，是的。

Mm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Yeah, Yeah.

是的，是的。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Okay.

好的。

We often buy confectionery and fancy cakes and such, like, in, we rarely bake our own bread.

我們經常購買糖果和花式蛋糕之類的東西，比如，在，我們很少自己烤麵包。

And there are several women locally that I used to do the rougher work leaving my maids to work here in the kitchen.

而且當地有幾個女人，我用來做較粗的工作，讓我的女傭在這裡的廚房工作。

Yeah.

是的。

Mm hmm.

嗯，嗯。

Yeah, Yeah.

是的，是的。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Yeah.

是的。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mm.

嗯。

And now I'm going to cover the whole thing in icing the way.

現在我打算用結冰的方式把整個東西覆蓋起來。

This is quite an old fashioned way to ice a cake.

這是一種相當老式的冰鎮蛋糕的方法。

It's not quite royal izing and not quite meringue.

它既不像皇家糖漿，也不像酥皮糖。

I'm going to whisk my egg whites until they're stiff and then add some sugar.

我要把我的蛋清打到硬挺，然後加入一些糖。

Yeah, yeah.

是的，是的。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Yeah, Yeah.

是的，是的。

I'm now going to ice my cake.

我現在要去給我的蛋糕加冰。

This cake has a curious name, Gertrude.

這個蛋糕有一個奇怪的名字，叫格特魯德。

I think it was probably supposed to be Gerland, which means Garland in French.

我想它可能應該是Gerland，法語中的意思是Garland。

I understand Eliza Acton spent some time in France, but she calls it Gertrude.

據我所知，伊麗莎-阿克頓在法國呆過一段時間，但她稱其為格特魯德。

And so shall I.

我也將如此。

Uh huh.

嗯哼。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Now you don't need to worry too much about your ice in.

現在你不需要太擔心你的冰塊在。

You can cover up mistakes by adding some decoration.

你可以通過添加一些裝飾來掩蓋錯誤。

I'm now going to put the cake into a very slow oven to let it dry out.

我現在要把蛋糕放進一個非常慢的烤箱，讓它變幹。

I've already started decorating my cake using some candied fruit.

我已經開始用一些蜜餞來裝飾我的蛋糕了。

But while it Mr Ryan, I made some leaf shapes out of some Armand paste, which I mixed with food coloring and then rolled it out and used my cutters.

但在瑞安先生的時候，我用一些阿曼德漿糊做了一些葉子的形狀，我把它和食物色素混合在一起，然後把它擀開，用我的切割器。

You can get many different shapes of cutters nowadays.

如今，你可以得到許多不同形狀的切割器。

I'm going to stick the shapes on using some royal icing.

我準備用一些皇家糖衣把這些形狀粘上去。

Synthetic food coloring is like this have been around for about 10 years now.

像這樣的合成食用色素已經存在了大約10年。

I think they come from the coal industry.

我認為他們來自煤炭行業。

They were even some when I was training.

我在訓練時，他們甚至有些。

I remember us being very excited when move arrived.

我記得搬家時我們非常興奮。

I still insist that the girls learn how to make food coloring in the old traditional way the spinach for green carrots for orange, but they aren't as good.

我仍然堅持讓女孩們學習如何用傳統的老方法制作食物色素，用菠菜做綠色的胡蘿蔔做橙色的食物色素，但是她們沒有那麼好。

They're a bit watery.

他們有點水靈靈的。

and leave a taste.

並留下一個味道。

Mhm.

嗯。

Mm hmm.

嗯，嗯。

Mhm.

嗯。

Yeah.

是的。

And now all I need to do is to fill the center.

而現在我需要做的是填補中心。

I'm filling the center of the cake or garland with whipped cream.

我在蛋糕或花環的中心填上生奶油。

You must make sure you get right down to the bottom.

你必須確保你能直接到達底部。

And I'm going to finish the decoration with some sugar flowers and some more leaves.

而我要用一些糖花和一些更多的葉子來完成裝飾。

There you are, Gertrude.

你在這裡，格特魯德。

L.

L.

A.

A.

Claim.

索賠。

Happy Christmas.

聖誕快樂。

Yeah, yeah.

是的，是的。

Uh huh.

嗯哼。

Okay, right.

好的，沒錯。

Mhm, no.

嗯，沒有。