Trench cake
A first world war wartime recipe for a cake sent to give cheer to troops in the trenches
Ingredients
- 8 oz/225g plain flour
- 4 oz/110g margarine
- 3 oz/75g currants
- 2 teaspoons cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 oz/75g brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- 1/4 pint milk
- Suggested extra flavourings – nutmeg ginger, grated lemon zest.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
- Grease and line a small cake tin (about 15-16 cm)
- Rub the margarine into the flour
- Add the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Dissolve the bicarb in the vinegar and milk
- Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and beat well
- Pour into the tin
- Bake in a moderate oven for about 1 hour. The original recipe says 2 hours, but ours was done in one.