Victorian sponge en · NOUN
Etymology
After Queen Victoria, who preferred this cake with her afternoon tea.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of Victoria sponge.
You'll be tucking into a nice slice of Victorian sponge before you know it - and with any luck, there won't be cake batter all over the kitchen.
2015 August 2, Telegraph Food, “Easy all-in-one cake recipes”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015:Mary Berry’s Paris training plays second fiddle to her Victorian sponge
2017 April 8, Emma Henderson, “The women proving male and female chefs are equal”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2017:On the beach my very British daughter scoffed 'pek bateta[…], ending with jugu cake made with flour and unpeeled groundnuts, an exoticised Victorian sponge.
2012 March 29, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, “Globe-trotting gastronomy: Sampling Zanzibar's culture melting pot of dishes”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2021:Choose between a cake course (in which you'll learn how to make brownies, gingerbread, and Victorian sponge) or the bread version, featuring a wide variety of loaves.
2016 March 19, [Leah Hyslop?], “[From cake classes to sourdough school: Britain's best baking courses] Best for.... complete beginners”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2016:Mr H talks us through their recipes, blow by blow. Not literally - though fisticuffs is obviously a temptation for Mrs H when working with him on a Victorian sponge, the keynote cake she had made for her Domestic Science O-level.
2010 April 23, Jonathan Sale, “Love Bites: Marital Skirmishes In The Kitchen, By Christopher Hirst”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2014:[…] I thought I’d used the cookery book writer [Isabella Beeton]’s iconic status as a way of understanding how a hugely expansionist Victorian Britain needed to lodge a particular reading of domesticity at its very heart. As far as everyone else is concerned I’d written a manual about how to make a Victorian sponge.
2016 February 6, Kathryn Hughes, “[‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men?] Kathryn Hughes”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2016:Learn about the Victorians' ickiest dishes, discover Queen Victoria's favourite lunch and bake a proper Victorian sponge (without a soggy bottom).
2015 July 19, Sarah Baxter, “Summer holiday events: 28 fantastic days out to keep the kids entertained”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2015:One hundred years ago, we were told in The Diets That Time Forgot, the average female waist was 10 inches smaller and the average man was two stones lighter. […] The Diets That Time Forgot preferred to advance the fatuous notion that our predecessors avoided widespread obesity because they had better weight-loss regimes, and to test out this notion they had persuaded nine contemporary fatties to adopt three historical health programmes: a Victorian version of the Atkins diet, […]
2008 March 19, Thomas Sutcliffe, “Last Night's TV: Time to throw in the Victorian sponge”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2026:The deli’s fruit cake, six-inch Victorian sponge and 50p flapjack also inspire joy.
2009 November 9, Adriaane Pielou, “The Boundary Hotel, London: five modern luxury hotels”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2009:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| Victorian sponges | Number=Plur | lexicographic |