I’ve decided to honour National Day’s Not Saints days or but all the odd, weird, funny National Days we hear about on the web.
So today is #NationalDay Sponge Cake
The earliest known recipe for a sponge cake is from the book “The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman” by English author & poet Gervase Markham in 1615.
My Mums recipe was always 2, 2, 4, 4. That’s two eggs, two sugar, four flower & four butter or margarine. She could make one of these in no time when I was younger.
A later version of this type of cake was the Victoria Sponge, named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea. Can’t say I blame her as a good sponge cake filled with jam & cream takes some beating.
We had a sponge cake layer in our wedding cake as I’m not a lover of fruit cake, I know a lot of couple do this.
How do you like your cake?
Have you entered our competition yet? What are you waiting, for as it ends soon. Competition
I love s Victoria sponge or a lemon drizzle cake
I like my cake anyway it comes
My favourite is fresh jam and cream sponge
Love proper fruit cake too
I absolutely love a good sponge cake especially with cream & jam. Yummy (:
My sister used to make the best sponge cake as a jelly roll cake with wonderful fillings, this just brought back the memory of having it growing up. I liked to help my big sister with baking, but it mostly meant doing the dishes!