Do a GOOGLE search for "FOWL CAKE"
https://goo.gl/6nYgsa
One of the first matches is a book which has the recipe.
The Magazine of Domestic Economy, Volume 3
https://goo.gl/LPB9Sa
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
martin(a)mbriscoe.me.uk
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Subject: [POWYS] Fowl cake?
I wonder if anyone can help with this little query, which is puzzling me. I am looking at
a batch of letters that my great uncle Daniel Jones wrote back to his family in Coelbren
from the front in France during the first world war. As you might imagine there is a lot
of talk about food and cigarettes. His family seems to have sent him a lot of cake of
various sorts, but in a couple of letters he refers to his cousin having, at Christmas
1915, “a fowl sent from home, it was beautiful”, then “Dick, Jack and Tom had a fowl each
sent to them from home, tell mother I should like to have one if there is any chance”. I
found the vision of poultry being sent in parcels to soldiers rather odd. However, a
couple of weeks later, he writes to his ever dutiful mother, saying “I received the
parcels quite safe and the fowl was a treat, it was beautiful, that’s the sort of cake I
want, it was grand.” Does any know what sort of cake this might have been as I can’t
work!
it out? What I do know is that his first language was Welsh and his letters are written
in a sometimes rather stilted English with strange syntax so I wonder if he has
mis-translated something here.