Siege Cake

This book contained 150 recipes given by famous people of its time.

(No eggs and easy on the sugar)

4 oz. dripping or lard. The grated rind of a lemon 4 oz. moist sugar. 4 oz. golden syrup. 1 level teaspoonful bi- carbonate of soda. 11/2 teacupfuls butter milk 12 oz. flour 4 oz. stoned raisins. 1 Notes.-To save sugar 6 oz. of syrup and 2 oz. of sugar can be used. If the butter-milk not available use ordinary milk, 1 level teaspoonful of cream or tartar, and 1/2 teaspoonful be-carbonate of soda. METHOD: Grease a cake-tin measuring about 7 inches in a diameter. Beat fat, sugar and golden syrup until the consistency of whipped cream, gradually work in the butter-milk. Sift the flour with bi-carbonate of soda and work it lightly into the mixture. Bake in a moderate oven for about 11/4 hours. Mrs. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN: "Men like this dish as well as women," says the Prime Minister's wife.

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Finally a cake!

Ed. Miles, J. A Kitchen Goes to War. John Miles, 1940