Victory Cakes

Excerpt from Royal Cook Book, 1940. (As in Royal Baking Powder):

Rule No. 1

Important! Remember this. All recipes in this book call for Royal Baking Powder. You MUST use Royal to get best results.

Here are 10 Victory Cake Recipes

Not one of them calls for more than a cup of your precious sugar in the cake itself. The luscious  fillings and toppings are almost entirely sugarless – made instead with jams, jellies, and substitute sweetenings. What’s more—these recipes are thrifty in every way. None of them calls for more than two eggs, and one is eggless. With these recipes on hand, you can enjoy a luscious cake—or even two—a week, and still keep within your budget. Warning. We’re all economy conscious these days—and should be—but do not be tempted into the false economy of saving on baking powder. One cake failure would more than wipe out all you thought you had saved that way.

Somerset Cake

2 large cooking apples

½ cup shortening

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 ½ cups flour

3 ½ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder

¼ teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons cocoa

1 cup chopped nuts

1 cup raisins or chopped dates

Peel and core apples, put through food chopper. Measure and use 1 ½ cups. Cream shortening; add sugar gradually, beating well. Add apples and flavoring. Sift together dry ingredients. Add nuts and raisins. Add to first mixture, beating well. Bake in greased tube pan in moderate oven at 350° F. for 1 ¼ hours. Makes 1 9-inch cake.