Sue's World War II Cake Recipes – Rhyl Kitchen Classroom

Ingredients

• 225g self raising flour
• a quarter of a tsp mixed spice
• 50g margarine
• 110g sugar
• 50g chopped peel
• 110g dried fruit
• half a tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 150ml cow's milk or oat milk
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 240 ml / 1 cup brown sugar (or to taste)
• 240 ml / 1 cup water
• 240 ml / 1 cup raisins or sultanas (experiment with other dried fruit, such as chopped ready-to-eat apricots)
• 2 tablespoons oil (rice bran oil is good)*
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or mixed spice
• half teaspoon ground cloves or mace
• 360 ml / 1 & a half cups plain flour
• a pinch of salt
• half teaspoon baking powder
• half teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 120 ml / half cup of chopped walnuts or pecans