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Vintage Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake

July 16, 2014 by Stacey 30 Comments

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Sometime around 1950, someone by the name of Wynwode Reid edited, compiled, and tested 100 recipes in a book called Cakes, Scones and Biscuits. The aforementioned recipes were approved by Sarah Dunne, then the Cookery Expert to the Melbourne Herald. Their first recipe was for a Delicate Lemon Cake, and sometime in 2014, Stacey Roberts (expert in nothing cookery-related) decided she could improve upon the cake by removing the lemon element and adding apple and cinnamon.

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This might be quite an unfair description of the event, it’s possible she just had apples she needed to use up. And the other apple cakes in the book required faffing about, and she was entirely too lazy to faff. Or get a new book.

Vintage Apple and Cinnamon Tea Cake

To one cup of sugar, she added 115-ish grams of softened butter. She ignored the part where it said to do half butter, half margarine. She also ignored the bit where it said “Codfat (a special kind of soft beef suet) or clarified dripping treated with milk to take away the meaty flavour can also be used successfully“. She creamed the butter and sugar, and added two eggs. She skipped over the bit where you add the finely grated rind of one lemon, and instead added two peeled and diced apples, and a half teaspoon of cinnamon. She then mixed in 1.5 cups of self-raising flour and 1/2 cup milk.

She didn’t realise until later that the recipe had advised beating the cake mixture for 5 minutes (lazy) but did turn it into a prepared tin and bake for about 30 minutes in a moderate oven. She did not ice with lemon icing and sprinkle with chopped angelica mostly because she does not know what angelica is.

She ate the cake and it was good. The end.

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  1. cybele@blahblah says

    July 16, 2014 at 7:03 am

    This is my favourite type of cake and I’m so impressed you managed to deviate with a cake recipe. Maybe I’ve been cursed by a CWA lady in the past. I’m not sure about decorating with Angelica but my mum used to give it to us when we had colds x

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 16, 2014 at 12:23 pm

      Haha I’ve been tinkering with these recipes since I was 10 years old so I kind of know what works and what’s going to be an abysmal failure these days!

      Reply
  2. Jackie @ Hippie Mumma says

    July 16, 2014 at 8:41 am

    You are too funny Miss Stacey lol. I *think* angelica is a herb? Probably wrong but it sounds right at the moment!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 16, 2014 at 12:21 pm

      Yeah not something I’ve got on hand regularly…

      Reply
  3. Elizabeth@thebackyardlemontree says

    July 16, 2014 at 9:45 am

    Good to know those old cake recipes work well as master recipes that you can adapt to what ever takes your fancy. Perfect cake baking weather at the moment too!!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 16, 2014 at 12:21 pm

      Pretty much how I’ve ever baked any cake since the dawn of time!

      Reply
  4. Josephine says

    July 16, 2014 at 10:33 am

    Gee Stacey, not sure why one would deviate from the original recipe – what a winner! And can we take a moment to appreciate the name Wynwode?

    But seriously, a slice of your cake would go down a treat this minute, being morning tea time an all. Thanks for sharing!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 16, 2014 at 12:20 pm

      I actually don’t know if it’s a man or a woman, or how to pronounce it. But, cake.

      Reply
  5. Lila Wolff says

    July 16, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Yum!
    Also look at your site all changed, wow!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 16, 2014 at 12:20 pm

      Time for a changeup!

      Reply
  6. Trish says

    July 16, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    Mmm , sounds delicious..

    Reply
  7. Engaging Women - Martine Harte says

    July 16, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    Had a dear elderly friend for years, Lorna who could tinker a recipe with the best of them. Reminds me of her kitchen in the afternoon. Yum.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 17, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      Oh that sounds lovely!

      Reply
  8. Christie Connelly says

    July 16, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    I can smell that through the screen.

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 17, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      Just don’t smell too hard, you might inhale the icing sugar. it could just be me who does that.

      Reply
  9. cityhippyfarmgirl says

    July 16, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    Codfat and Angelica eh? Now there are two things you are probably not going to hear of much on Master Chef.
    (And non faffing cakes are the best kind…who needs extra faffing in life?)

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 17, 2014 at 8:50 pm

      I bet they bring back both next year like the bloody hipsters they are.

      Reply
  10. Shari says

    July 16, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    This was the wrong post for me to read whilst hungry…pregnancy cravings overload

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 17, 2014 at 8:50 pm

      Haha go bake a cake

      Reply
  11. Mandi Jones says

    July 17, 2014 at 12:36 am

    Non-faffing cakes are winners here too. And now I know what we’re having for morning tea tomorrow. Thank you very much!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 17, 2014 at 8:50 pm

      I hope you liked it!

      Reply
  12. Lavendar Summers says

    July 17, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    Ummm…Yum Yum! They look so yummy! You know what? I LOVE food and things like that VERY much! The cakes makes me goes hungry every time when went through this blog XP

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 21, 2014 at 4:55 pm

      Ha I love food too.

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      • Lavendar Summers says

        July 21, 2014 at 5:58 pm

        -high fife- XDD

        Reply
  13. The Plumbette says

    July 22, 2014 at 11:16 am

    I do this all the time, changing a recipe to suit what’s drooping in the fridge. With my tea cake I add extra apple to the top and a crumble which makes it delicious for a dessert with a dash of cream or custard or both!

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    • Veggie Mama says

      July 23, 2014 at 11:36 am

      FAFFING.

      Reply

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