Village show Victoria sponge - no baking powder?

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Hi I am going to enter our local agricultural show in the Victoria sponge category. I've never done this before but I have made a fair few cakes so I thought it would be fun.
However the entry form says make it to the following recipe:
3 eggs
175g SR flour
175g Marg
175g sugar

No where does it mention baking powder but every recipe I've ever come across including the w.i. and Mary berry always add baking powder.

So my question is, have they made a mistake? Do I add it and hope they won't notice or am I missing some secret trick in the method that makes up for the extra oomph needed?

If its Penistone show i might spot it! Reading your thread makes me want to try and make a victoria sponge now. DD is watching GBBO and thinks i could win (i really couldn't!) but i really want to make one now. After seeing the ones at the show I know I'm going to want to eat one.

I'm saying nothing except after this I am out off Victoria sponge for life. Used to be my favourite cake.

Going to bake my final practice tomorrow....

good luck!
tbh I find victoria sponge a bit boring & overrated

So show day is here...this is my entry

Looking great - Good Luck !

That looks really good, fingers crossed! What did you do in the end? It has a great rise!

good luck!

we have show next week wonders if I can pass of a brioche as sponge

Well done. Fingers crossed

That looks great! How did it go?

(I have been following this for ages!, trying not to go and start baking myself!)

Why just jam victoria sponge is jam and piped fresh cream

Oooh, how did it go?!

That's controversial Eleventy, many would say that a Victoria Sandwich must be sieved raspberry jam only.

When we lived in a village the Village Show Committee and their families won all the prizes. It was a local show for local people, who had lived in the village for at least three generations, apparently.

How did you do? Suspense is killing me

Sorry for being slow to update (eldest just started school been crazy busy)
I didn't win anything which whilst not really expecting to I must admit to being a bit disappointed. So I asked the judge for feedback and apparently I was in the top five ( there had to be about 20 cakes there so I was quite pleased with that).
The winners had lots more height and the edges were ridiculously perfect which mine really weren't! Apparently the consensus is they all used stork and the all in one method.
I took lots of pictures for reference and am going to keep practising when I can bear to crank the oven up!
Was really interesting to see the same names win over and over again and there were a few classes where I know I could have done a better job so I think I've caught the bug now and next year may enter more than one category...

Top five is fab, you deserve a medal for perseverance 🏅

Great, well done OP!