Why is 'Tottenham cake' called so?

Question

I bought a slice of cake the other day, sponge with pink icing. It was called Tottenham cake and the baker couldn't tell me why it was called so.

Answer 1

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club was started in 1880. Some time in the 1930s a game was played by the Friends Club team and the Spurs Junior Team. The Friends Club lost, but perhaps it was just a friendly game.

Ted Willis (later Lord Willis) recalls in his autobiography
"a peculiar local invention was Tottenham Cake. It consisted of a scone like base covered with lurid pink icing. It was baked in long flat trays, then cut into cubes, which retailed for a penny each. Luckily the cake was not always cut evenly or the icing uniformly spread, and the smaller defective pieces were sold off at half price.

"In 1901 it was given away free to local children to celebrate the Spurs first victory in the FA Cup Final"

Henry Chalkley, the baker, was a Friend. The tradition of a Tottenham cake is continued today at Tottenham Friends Meeting. Now baked by Peter Brown, the pink icing is usually achieved by using mulberries off the tree in the burial ground.

Answer 2

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Why is 'Tottenham cake' called so?
I bought a slice of cake the other day, sponge with pink icing. It was called Tottenham cake and the baker couldn't tell me why it was called so.

Answer 3

originates from tottenham in the 40s when the war was on the women made it for soldiers staying in the town

Answer 4

Was is the operative word and lissen ... we did you a favor ..... see it was billed as Angel Food Cake .... but it tasted more like a mess of Bozo's Hair!

Answer 5

Very interesting,I had never heard of it and enjoyed looking through the answers.Thanks.