Remembering the Past Australia
Soldiers' Rock Cakes (1917)
“Send a good big home-made cake to your soldier at the front or in camp.”
Originally published in the Sunday Times (Sydney), on Sunday 30 September 1917
- 8 ounces (227gms) of butter
- 1lb. (454gms) of flour
- 2 eggs
- 8oz. (227gms) of moist sugar
- grated rind of 2 lemons
- 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder
- Rub the butter into the flour. Add the rest of the ingredients, the eggs well beaten.
- Drop in small lumps on a floured baking-sheet, and bake for half an hour.
- Note: No temperature was supplied with the recipe. Traditional rock cakes are baked at 200C/180C fan-forced 15-20 minutes.