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In older times home cooks became quite inventive with fillings; sometimes a cake could turn out a bit dry or an ordinary sponge might need a bit of a tart up before putting on the tea trolley. Mock cream was a big favourite, especially when times were tough and cream was expensive. You can still get mock cream in doughnuts from bakeries but it’s far more delicious if you make it yourself – and I know there are people who much prefer mock cream to real cream any day!
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Other fillings involved dates, honey, oranges and lemons. You can make up these fillings then quite happily take a bought sponge and make it look positively handmade. Or you could use them to rescue a cake which might have come out of the oven looking a bit dry and worse for wear.

Mock cream

2 tbsp butter (soft)

4 tbsp caster sugar

2 tbsp milk

2 tbsp hot (not boiling) water

Cream butter and sugar

Mix in the milk drop by drop while beating and continue to beat until well mixed. Slowly add hot water and beat.

Date filling

1 cup stoneless dates, chopped

1/2 cup water

1 tbsp butter

2 tbsp sugar

Rind and juice of a lemon

  1. Put all ingredients in a saucepan and boil until thick, like jam.

Marshmallow filling

3/4 cup water

3/4 cup caster sugar

1/4 tsp cream of tarter

1 tsp gelatine

1/4 cup water

1 egg white

Boil 3/4 cup water with sugar and cream of tartar for about seven minutes or until it threads (forms a thread if pulled out by a spoon).

Soak the gelatine in ¼ cup water. Add to the sugar and water.

Beat the egg white until stiff and add to the cooled mixture. Beat the mixture until stiff.

Honey cream

Use in place of whipped cream

1 cup pineapple juice

2 tsp cornflour

1 tbsp butter

1 tbsp firm honey

Bring pineapple juice to the boil.

Meanwhile mix the cornflour with a little cold juice to make a paste then stir into the juice until smooth. Boil until thick.

Beat butter and honey together until light and creamy. Beat in the cooled pineapple mixture,1 tbsp at a time.

Orange filling

1 cup sugar

2 tbsp flour

Pinch salt

1 egg (beaten)

1/3 cup orange juice

Grated rind of one orange

1/2 cup water

2 tsp butter

1 tbsp lemon juice

Mix the sugar, flour and salt.

Add beaten egg, orange juice, rind and water.

Cook in a double boiler (or with a bowl on top of simmering water) until creamy. Let it cool, then whip in butter and lem

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