Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome friends, welcome back to Sunday morning and The Old Cookbook Show!
Today, we’re moving 100 years forward in baking history — from Mrs. Dods’ 1829 Scotch Diet Cake to a 1920s Casco Potato Flour Sponge Cake from The New Edwardsburg Recipe Book, published by the Canada Starch Company Limited of Montreal.
This vintage cake recipe showcases how baking evolved in the early 20th century — from simple whipped eggs and sugar to the widespread use of baking powder. The result? A light, fluffy, old-fashioned sponge cake with a beautiful texture — perfect with fruit compote, whipped cream, or a dusting of sugar.
This is more than a simple sponge cake — it’s a piece of Canadian baking history, captured in an advertising cookbook nearly a century old. Whether you love vintage recipes, historical baking, or you just want to see how home cooks adapted over time, this episode is for you.
CASCO POTATO FLOUR SPONGE CAKE
2 Eggs
½ cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ cup Casco Potato Flour
2 Tablespoons Water if needed
SEPARATE eggs, beating yolks thick, add sugar and continue beating; beat whites of eggs stiff and beat into first mixture. Mix baking powder and potato flour and sift into mixture. Bake in a moderate oven about 30 minutes.
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Welcome friends, welcome back to Sunday morning and The Old Cookbook Show!
Today, we’re moving 100 years forward in baking history — from Mrs. Dods’ 1829 Scotch Diet Cake to a 1920s Casco Potato Flour Sponge Cake from The New Edwardsburg Recipe Book, published by the Canada Starch Company Limited of Montreal.
This vintage cake recipe showcases how baking evolved in the early 20th century — from simple whipped eggs and sugar to the widespread use of baking powder. The result? A light, fluffy, old-fashioned sponge cake with a beautiful texture — perfect with fruit compote, whipped cream, or a dusting of sugar.
This is more than a simple sponge cake — it’s a piece of Canadian baking history, captured in an advertising cookbook nearly a century old. Whether you love vintage recipes, historical baking, or you just want to see how home cooks adapted over time, this episode is for you.
CASCO POTATO FLOUR SPONGE CAKE
2 Eggs
½ cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
½ cup Casco Potato Flour
2 Tablespoons Water if needed
SEPARATE eggs, beating yolks thick, add sugar and continue beating; beat whites of eggs stiff and beat into first mixture. Mix baking powder and potato flour and sift into mixture. Bake in a moderate oven about 30 minutes.
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https://ca-p2p.engagingnetworks.app/31190/ghw2025/180784/glens-hangar
More info about Hope Air: hopeair.ca
hopeair.ca/impact-report-2024
Here is the link to our Apron: searchandrescuedenim.com/products/s-r-x-glen-friends-chef-apron?country=IO&variant=50865649877152
searchandrescuedenim.com/GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Discount code to be used at checkout: GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
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