History & The Arts
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
...work of food historians, you can recreate Victoria's Victoria sponge...Mrs Beeton would have been a disaster on Great British Bake Off. In her first published recipe – “A Good Sponge Cake” – the famed Victorian domestic goddess forgot to explain how much flour was required. Hardly a trifling oversight – but nothing that would have troubled Bake Off finalists,...