Agriculture Home Demostrators did a great job in the 60's and 70's. They went around the longhouses especially to help educate the women in healthy cooking and imparting special health knowledge. One of the recipes inherited by many Iban friends in Sarawak from this era is this special Black Dunlop Cake.
Many people would simply call it longhouse cake.
Indeed, one can make this kind of cake any where in the world without precision weighing scales and superior oven.
You will need
3 glasses of flour
10 eggs
l tsp baking powder
3 glasses of sugar
l tin of Golden Churn butter
2 cups browning sugar (melted in some warm water for 3 minutes)
1 tin of condensed milk
Method
Beat butter and eggs in a basin.
Add sugar and then flour slowly
Bake in a make shift oven (use a large curry pot -fill the pot with about 3 inches of river sand; put over charcoal stove and the place some charcoal on the lid)
this will give you a good hot oven.
Once the cake is about to be cooked remove some of the charcoals and allow a slow fire to cook the cake more evenly.
however now many longhouses have their kerosene ovens so the method is still the same.
Have a try!!
This cake can last for a long time without refrigeration too.
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