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WW1 Spiced Sultana Cake

Posted in - Bake & Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes on February 3rd 2014 0 Comments allspice sultana cake war time WW1

This is one of Granny Dot’s recipes, re-invented. I have kept the same ingredients and changed the quantities, adding demerara sugar for a wonderful finish. The recipe comes from Learning to Cook which was published during the First World War in 1915.

I have made the recipe a few times and every person who has tried it has …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917