Firefighters’ Cakes

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Firefighters' Cakes

Yield 12 small cakes

Author Good Fare: A Book of Wartime Recipes

"These were served to firefighters after having been made for them in a sixth-floor City kitchen during the height of a blitz."The original recipe makes enough to feed an entire fire brigade! It has been divided here to make about a dozen small cakes.

Ingredients

• 3 cups (490g) self-rising flour
• 3 ounces (1/3 cup/86g) cooking fat, butter or shortening
• 3 ounces (1/4 cup/88g) mashed potato
• 4 ounces (3/4 cup/114g) dried raisins, currants or chopped dates
• 3/4 teaspoon (3g) baking powder
• 2 ounces (1/4 cup/59g) sugar
• 8 ounces (1 cup/227ml) milk and water mixed (or water only will do)

Instructions

1. Rub fat into flour and baking powder sieved together.
2. Add other ingredients, including mashed potato, warmed.
3. Make to a stiff dough with milk and water as quickly as possible.
4. Put mixture in small heaps on baking sheet; bake in hot oven (400°F/200°C) 30 minutes.

Daily Telegraph. Good Fare: A Book of Wartime Recipes. London: Macmillan, 2008. p. 123.