Recipes for cakes and puddings

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This 1930 booklet is a promotional recipe pamphlet issued by Latham & Company Limited to sell 'Cakeoma', a proprietary cake flour mixture, along with companion products like Custard Powder, Oma Cornflour, and Wafer breakfast cereals. Rather than a general household manual, it is a branded cookery guide designed to demonstrate the versatility and reliability of these packaged products across a wide range of cakes, pastries, biscuits, puddings, and sweet and savory dishes. Readers will find an index, measurement and oven temperature tables, and general directions for cake-making before moving into recipes organized by type: fruit cakes, everyday cakes, flavored cakes, small cakes and biscuits, pastries, sponges, icings, and then a substantial run of steamed, baked, and cold puddings, sauces, and cereal-based dishes. The tone throughout stresses simplicity, economy, and dependable results when using the company's products. For a modern reader, this book offers a window into early twentieth-century commercial food marketing and home baking conventions, showing how manufacturers embedded their branded ingredients into the everyday domestic repertoire of cakes and puddings. It is a compact, practical text of 96 anchored food records spread across two sections, useful both as a baking reference and as an artifact of interwar British commercial cookery culture.

The book is organized into two mechanically gated sections. Section 1 (pages 0-9) opens with promotional material about the Cakeoma product, an index, measurement and oven temperature tables, and general directions for cake-making and economy, before presenting a broad sweep of cake recipes (fruit cakes, everyday cakes, flavored cakes, small cakes and biscuits, pastries and flans, sponges and sandwich cakes), followed by icing and decorating instructions and an initial transition into puddings. Section 2 (pages 10-15) continues and concentrates on puddings, organized under headings such as Cakeoma Puddings, Pudding Sauces, Cakeoma Cold Sweets, Cakeoma Custard Powder Recipes, Oma Cornflour Recipes, and Wafer Breakfast Cereals, ending with both sweet and savory dishes made from the Wafer cereal product.