Retro recipe

I was surprised and delighted to see the cake of the month in the June 2016 Women’s Weekly is a lumberjack cake. This bought back many memories. A quick search identified I originally cooked this cake from a recipe included in Foods of Canada in the June 1975 edition of the Women’s Weekly. I still have the 1975 recipe and

it’s the same as the 2016 recipe. I’m 90 years old, bake two to three times a week, have been buying The Women’s Weekly since I was 15 and am being tantalised by the aroma from the oven while waiting for the lumberjack cake to cook.

D. BOYD, ESSENDON, VIC.