Sponge Cake
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Sponge Cake
My friend has asked for help locating a recipe for sponge cake that someone would have made in England in the 1950's. Her Dad had been there and eaten some that was wonderful. My friend got a recipe off the internet and made a hard, heavy, tasteless cake she ended up throwing out. The recipe called for self-rising flour. Is that something different in England? Who has experience making this? TIA Marcia in Indiana
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https://www.kingarthurflour.com/reci...ch-cake-recipe
Haven't made it myself but have always had good luck with their recipes
Haven't made it myself but have always had good luck with their recipes
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This sponge cake probably was a Victoria Sponge cake. It is a 'sandwiched' cake with jam, buttercream, or whipped cream +/- strawberries in the middle. It is truly delicious. The WI would say that jam in the middle is the 'correct' version. Self raising flour is flour with a raising agent added by the manufacturer. Flour for baking, in the UK, is either plain (probably your all-purpose flour), and self raising. There is also bread making, pasta, gram, spelt, buckwheat and other types of flour available here. I am attaching a link for the WI Victoria sponge, but of course, it may have been a different type of cake your friend was thinking about.
https://www.thewi.org.uk/what-we-do/...toria-sandwich
https://www.thewi.org.uk/what-we-do/...toria-sandwich
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