[Sca-cooks] OOP: Victoria Sponge Cake

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

[snip]
>
> On a side note, I was surprised to see that my copy of Fance's
> "Student's Technology of Breadmaking And Flour Confectionery" made
> absolutely no reference to Victoria sponge, but then this vocational
> school textbook from the 1950's UK (and still in print, unchanged, as
> far as I know) seems to equate "cake" with fruitcake. Including, I might
> add, wedding cakes, which are simply gloriously decorated fruitcakes. I
> wonder whether there may be, on some level, a view of sponge cakes as
> being more pudding than cake (probably distinguished by whether you make
> them at home or buy them at the baker's?).
>
> Adamantius (who remembers the faces of some of his wedding guests when
> the cake was cut open)


Fruitcakes are still used in English cake decorating circles (when they're
not using styrofoam or plastic forms) because you can flip them all about,
thus allowing you to do wonderful airy things with Royal icing that a
butter cake doesn't have the structural integrity to allow.

Margaret FitzWilliam