Not Big Enough
Dear Aunt Daisy, | Here is a recipe for a-chocolate cake, ) a great favourite, which keeps very well ) and is delicious. However, each time I | ymake it I resolve never to do so again, | as the mixture makes such a small cake. Whether I do not cook it correctly or what I don't knhow,. but. although. it rises just a little in the oven it comes out hardly bigger than the sandwich | tins, Can you tell me what I may: be doing wrongly, or how I can increase it economically. I always use a_ glass measuring cup and my eggs are usually big. I get the same result each time) although the cake is never a failure except in amount. One scant cup sugar, 1 level cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, % lb. butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons cocoa dissolved in 42 small cup boiling water. Cream butter and sugar, add | eggs one by one, then flour, then cocoa in water. Lastly 1 big teaspoon baking powder. "G.K.," Hastings. Perhaps a Link in our Daisy Chain may be able to answer this. I think that if the cake is "always delicious, keeps well, and is never tough, never a failure," it is probably quite right, _ although a 3-egg sponge cake is certainly quite a big one as a rule."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 23
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221Not Big Enough New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 23
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