Sponge cakes with sweet spices, dusted with sugar. Known only from Vine's Shop Goods...


Original Receipt from 'Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-Tray and Window:' by Frederick T Vine (Vine 1907)

No. 102.Tavistock Cakes

2 ¼ lbs. soda flour (No. 1);    ¾ lb. sugar.
½ lb. butter;    1 oz. mixed spice
3 eggs;    Milk.

Mode. - Cream up the butter and sugar in a pan with the ground spice; add the eggs in the usual manner; then mix in the flour vrith milk, and fill into large round crinkled pans with a palette knife; dust sugar over, and bake in a warm oven. Sell at 1d. each.