Savoy Cake

This is the first recipe in Mrs Crocombe’s recipe book. She calls it a ‘sponge cake’, but fatless sponges were also known as Savoy cakes. It is one of two fatless sponges in the book. She also has more than 10 standard sponge cake mixes, used variously to make both small and large cakes and drop biscuits. Fatless sponges are lighter than standard sponge cakes, and were often used as the basis for other recipes, crossing over from cake to sweet very easily. They lent themsel