This is a cake. Didi says this is an old-fashioned sort of a cake. Helen thinks it might have inspired Hummingbird with their high sugar low fat recipes.
Method
Beat the sugar and butter til creamy. (Didi remembers that it will be quite grainy creamy). Add the eggs and the milk with a little flour.
Add the rest of the flour with a metal spoon, folding it in.
Put a sheet of something (eg greaseproof in the bottom of each tin – you will need to put half the mixture in one tin, half in the other tin).
Put in a moderate oven (eg about 370 Fahrenheit) for half an hour approximately.
Tip! Take out 2 tablespoons of flour, and put in 2 tablespoons of cocoa and proceed as normally.
Serve with: Butter icing in the middle. Or with jam in the middle.
Memory: Didi says: ‘You would never have it with butter icing AND jam in, in the 1950s. That would have been far too decadent.’ Think rationing. Also Didi says everywhere she’s said butter above the recipe actually said margarine. But she just can’t advocate anyone eating margarine. So as she’s reading out the recipes, and I’m typing them up, she is changing any mention of marg to butter.
Ingredients
½ lb self-raising flour
½ lb castor sugar
¼ lb butter
2 eggs
1 cup of milk
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