A birthday party is never a proper birthday party without a cake! Unfortunately, I had just one egg to last me a whole week so I had to find a recipe that used NO eggs…Marguerite Patten came to the rescue (as always) and I found a suitable recipe to try so at least I could enjoy a 1940’s cake on Em’s birthday.
All went well and the cake smelled actually quite nice as it baked and I removed the tins and left them to cool when cooked. But then it came to removing the cakes from the tins and everything fell apart into a crumbly mound looking more like cous cous than a sweet delicious treat. It may have looked like a total disaster but the cake tasted really good and now being a modern day 1940’s cook with limited resources there was no way in hell I was going to throw it away…..so with no further delay here is the recipe
Eggless sponge gone wrong
- 6 oz wholewheat flour
- 3 teaspoons of baking powder
- 2.5 oz margarine
- 2 oz sugar
- 1 level tablespoon of table syrup (or Lyons Golden Syrup)
- 1/4 pint milk
- sultanas optional
- jam for filling optional
Method
Sift the flour and the baking powder together
Cream the margarine, sugar and syrup together until soft and light
Add a little flour and then a little liquid
Continue to do this until until you have a smooth mixture.
Grease and flour two 7 inch sandwich tins and divide mixture between them
Cook in centre of over at 200 celcius for 20-30 minutes.
Cool for 10 minutes before removing from tins