A Victoria Sponge question: how long to cream for?

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Hopefully now MN is full of VSC experts you can answer this....

I decided to have a go at my first VSC today, partly to celebrate having bought a handheld mixer.

What I couldn't work out was how long to cream it for.
Delia says it has to drop easily off a spoon. Bee Nilson says you do it until the sugar is no longer gritty.

I creamed and creamed with my mixer for ages and it got lovely and white and fluffy, but it never got to the easily dropping off state and was always a touch gritty.

None of the recipes say anything about the creaming taking ages.

It did rise quite nicely, but could it have been even nicer?

wiht mixer?

abotu a miinute
tillt he butter sugar misture goes white

I did it for way longer than a minute.
Are Delia and Bee being old-school and not taking into account the pressured life of the modern woman then?
God knows how long it would have taken to stop being gritty with a wooden spoon, then - several days I should think.

Oh fgs, instead of bletherin on about creaming bloody sponge cakes you want to Get Yourself A Job and some More Important Things To Worry About, blah blah feminism blah disgrace to your sex blahdi blah Stepford blah

Does no-one cream till it's no longer gritty then?

Actually maybe Delia and Bee were part of conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen creaming their cakes instead of fighting patriarchy? It's beginning to look that way.

LOL, definitely

I look at Delia and all I can think is "fembot"

What sort of sugar did you use?

granulated sugar is alwyas gritty

if caster, that goes smooth (or icing sugar)

I used caster.