Hot Milk Sponge Cake

This Historic Recipe comes from “My Favorite Recipe” from the Sarnia Canadian Observer. This newsprint recipe book was probably published in the 1940s; it contains many recipes with no authors named. It also has advertisements from businesses of the era like The King Milling Company.

By 1845 Sarnia had its first flour mill, built by James Flintoft on the site where the Polysar building now stands. Flintoft soon sold his mill to Malcom Cameron, and Cameron, in turn, sold it to an Ingersoll man, James King, in 1871. King operated the mill under the name King’s Mills until he incorporated it as the King Milling Company in1892. By 1925 the mill was turning out 300 barrels of flour per day, a tremendous increase compared to its initial output of 50 barrels per day in 1845. Much of this flour was exported to Great Britain. Bonnie Doon, White Satin and The Queen were the popular products made by the King Milling Company. In 1962 a huge fire with flames leaping up to more that a hundred feet gutted the mill and put an untimely end to the King Milling Company. The remains of the buildings were razed four years later.

Copied from “Sarnia Gateway to Bluewaterland” – An Illustrated History by Edward Phelps - 1987– p. 32