More About Overseas Cakes
Dear Aunt Daisy, Just a few more words about sending Christmas Cakes overseas. I think things must be perfect to begin with, if they have to go through the tropics. I myself have never sent cakes to England, but I have one baking at the moment to send to Surrey. However, I have sent to the Middle East, and the Pacific, and have never had a failure. One of the cakes was forwarded on from New Zealand, to an airman in New Georgia. Having been told that nothing would keep in that climate (leather belts and boots, etc., mildewed in a few hours) he decided to keep the cake a few days as a test, even though it wasn’t properly airtight. He wrote later and said, "he and his mates sent their compliments and that was the best cake they had had in a long time." Here is the recipe:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 27
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154More About Overseas Cakes New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 27
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