Ship Cake
Dear Aunt Daisy, Have you a recipe for "Ship Cake," please? A-friend of mine speaks of it, and says it is one of yours. I should be so grateful if you could help me.
J. J.
Wellington
Well, J.J.-we have two-one is a fruit one-and one is a cake suitable for a children’s party-so I will put both. Ship’s Fruit Cake.-Half a pound of butter; 1 cup of sugar; 2 large cups of flour; 1 tablespoon of golden syrup; 1 tablespoon of raspberr? jam (or homemade gooseberry); 1 teaspoon of baking soda dissdlved in 1 cup of milk; 1 egg; 1 teaspoon of vinegar; and 1Ib. to 1¥2Ib. of mixed fruit. Cream the butter and sugar, add thei egg and beat. Add the golden syrup, jam, and vinegar, then the flour and fruit, and last of all, the soda and milk. Bake in a moderate oven, slowly, as you would a Christmas cake, for about 21 hours. Birthday Cake,-I will print the letter from the Link at Papakura, who sent us this idea. Any cake recipe would doprobably a madeira would be best for children, "I bought a large aluminium pudding basin, and squeezed it into the shape of a ship, quite pointed at one end -and by the way, I just push it back into shape when I’ve finisked with the cake. Now I cook the cake in this tin, 2 small baking powder tins, and a sandwich tin. I slice the sandwich’ tin cake into two straight pieces crosswise, and make the ends straight. Now place these pieces, one shorter than the other, on top’ of the big cake, to make the decks. Then put the funnels on top-the ones cooked in the baking powder tins. Now I ice the hull chocolate, and the decks white, and the funnels a very bright pink. I get two meat sticks from the butcher, and after putting these in place, I make a wireless with fine fuse wire, with one or two strands down to the deck. Then I make several lifebuoys from the rest: of the cake in the wich tin, by cutting little rings with holes in the centre. I also get liquorice staples and cut off one end and stick them in the cake, with the cut end out, for portholes. I put two flags on the mast, and cut out a couple of anchors from black paper, and just stick them on the icing."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 27
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409Ship Cake New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 27
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