Best War Cake Recipes

WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine brown sugar and water. Add raisins, nuts, candied citron, shortening, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon; bring to a boil and boil 3 minutes. Remove from heat and cool.
• Sift in flour and baking powder; stir until well blended. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. Leave in pan and cut into squares. .

MARITIME WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a round tube pan or two loaf pans.
• Bring water, raisins, molasses, sugar, and shortening to a boil in a saucepan; reduce heat to low and simmer until raisins are plump, about 5 minutes. Allow to cool.
• Whisk flour, baking soda, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Stir flour mixture into raisin mixture until well combined; pour into prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

BUTTERLESS, EGGLESS, MILKLESS - WAR OR DEPRSSION CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Mix together the sugar, spices, water, lard and raisins in a saucepan. Bring to a boil for one minute, let cool. Add flour and baking soda and mix together well. Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan or loaf pan. Bake for one hour at 325F. To test for done, place a straw or a toothpick into the cake, if it comes out clean, then it is done. Remove from oven, let cool upside down until sides pull away from the pan.
• 2. Put Icing ingredients into small sauce pan. Bring to a boil for 3 minutes. When cooled. Ice cake. *** You can add lemon juice instead of water or add a little vanilla or almond flavoring.

CANADIAN WAR CAKE (WW I) RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10 ¼ X 3 ⅝-inch loaf pan. Combine raisins, butter, brown sugar, spices and water in a heavy saucepan. Place on high heat and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes. Remove from heat and transfer raisin mixture into a large bowl. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile combine flour, salt and baking soda and mix gently. When the raisin mixture cools, add the dry ingredients, orange juice and vanilla. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove from pan to cool completely on wire rack. Let cake sit at least one day before slicing. Frosting: Bring all ingredients to boil until forms a soft ball and remove from heat. Beat with mixer until it is thick enough to spread.

BOILED RAISIN CAKE (CANADIAN WAR CAKE)

Steps:

• Mix raisins, butter, brown sugar, spices, and water in heavy saucepan.
• Place on high heat and bring to a boil.
• Lower heat and simmer for 6 minutes.
• Remove from heat and turn raisin mixture into a large bowl.
• Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine flour, salt, and baking soda and mix gently.
• Add orange juice, vanilla and dry ingredients to cooled raisin mixture and beat well.
• Turn batter into a well greased 10 ¼" x 3 5/8" x 2 5/8" loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour.
• Allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes.
• Remove from loaf pan and allow to cool completely on wire rack.
• Let cake ripen for at least one day before slicing.

FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCH CAKE RECIPE - (3.9/5)

Steps:

• Grease a cake tin. Rub margarine into the flour in a basin. Add the dry ingredients. Mix well. Add the soda dissolved in vinegar and milk. Beat well. Turn into the tin. Bake in a moderate oven for about two hours.

WORLD WAR II CAKE

Steps:

• Combine the Miracle Whip, sugar, and cocoa. Mix well.
• In a separate bowl, mix the flour and baking soda.
• Add hot water and vanilla to cocoa mixture. Add this to the flour mixture and blend well.
• Pour into a greased bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

GRANDMA ADELINE'S 1940'S WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Boil raisins in water for 10 minutes. Add lard. Let melt. Sift dry ingredients together and add to raisins/lard in pan. Add egg. Pour into greased loaf pans. Bake for 45 min to 1 hour at 350 degrees.

CIVIL WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Combine raisins, sugar, 1 cup of water, shortening, salt & spices in a saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, simmer 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, then cool till lukewarm, then add the other cp of water.
• Dissolve soda in 2 teas.
• of water, set aside. Stir sifted & measured flour into raisin mixture & beat until smooth.
• Add dissolved soda last. Pur into greased floured 13x9 [am & bale 50-55 min.
• at 350 degrees.
• It may also be cooked in a tube pan.
• Serve with whipped cream or caramel frosting.
• Combine 3/4 cup of brown sugar 1/2 cup of water 1/2 tsp salt in a saucepan.
• Cook 6 min.
• stirring often.
• Cool to lukewarm and stir in 3 Tbsp.
• of butter.
• Then gradually stir in 21/4 cups of sifted confectionery sugar, beating until smooth.
• Stir in 1 teas.
• vanilla and spread on cake. You will be surprised how good it taste with such little ingredients.

WORLD WAR 1 CAKE

Steps:

• 1. A note from my mother, she sent to the newspaper. "In a long forgotten era, when I was 6 years old, first-grader at the Alexander Hamilton school in Chicago, wearing long brown stockings- (atop of the long underwear) - beginning each mroning with the "Pledge of Alliegiance" and "The Star Spangled Banner" - adhering to the phrase (thank God) of "Children should be seen and not heard" -the days of a fun evening was sitting around the big oak dining room under what is now called a Tiffany lamp with all of the family cracking and eating walnuts while the soft snow fell noiselessly to the ground..and my Mother knitted socks "for the boys in the trenches..we ate my mother's luscious "War Cake"..and here is that cake recipe."
• 2. Boil the brown sugar with the raisins, cinnamon, ground cloves, butter and water for 3 mintues and cool.
• 3. When mixture is cool add the flour, baking powder and the baking soda with the water. Mix well and bake in a greased loaf pan. 325* or 350* until sides come away from pan slightly. Prick with a toothpick for doneness. Now we all know folks use to use a piece of broom straw to do this with. Well maybe your not that old..but I remember my Grandma and Mom doing this.
• 4. Thank God times have changed to a point..were Children are not only heard, but they are seen. Things changed with my Grandmother and my Mom when my kids where born. There were times when I was kid, it would have been easier to have been brought up by Carmelite Nuns in a Monastery. It really was a Tiffany lamp. A gift from my Grandfather to the woman he loved for 56 years. The receipt was found after my grandfather had passed away.

WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Put the first 7 ingredients in a heavy gauge saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Cook gently for 5 minutes and remove from heat and let cool until mixture is comfortably cool to your finger.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
• Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
• Add them to the cooled sugar mixture, beat well.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Bake for 45 minutes or toothpick comes out of center clean.
• Cool in pans 10 minutes and then turn out on plate and cool completely.

1917 WAR CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Put corn syrup,cold water, salt, cloves and nutmeg in saucepan and cook for 3 minutes till it reaches a boil.
• 2. Add oil and when cool add soda dissolved in a little hot water in a bowl.
• 3. Mix flour and baking powder and add to ingredients. Stir well.
• 4. Pour into greased tube pan or 13x9" pan and bake for one hour at 325 degrees. Check for doneness till its golden brown.

1917 WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Put first 6 ingredients in saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook 3 minutes after reaching boiling point. Add Crisco.
• When cool add soda dissolved in a little hot water. Add flour and baking powder. Stir.
• Pour into greased tube pan. Bake for 1 hour at 325°F.

CANADIAN WAR CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Mix together sugar, margarine, spices, and raisins in hot water. Let boil for 5 minutes. Cool. Add four and mix well. Bake in 3 greased layer pans lined with wax paper. Bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes.
• 2. For Icing: Cook until waxy. Beat until cold. Spread between layers and on top and sides of cooled cake.

CIVIL WAR POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Mix the butter and sugar together well and beat in the eggs.
• Sift the flour and salt together; mix in to the butter mixture until thoroughly blended.
• Add the lemon peel, nutmeg, and brandy, mix well and pour into two small buttered loaf pans or one large one.
• Bake in a moderate oven (350F) for about 1 hour or until cake tests done.

WORLD WAR 1 CAKE

Steps:

• 1. in the evening,mix first 9 ingredients in large pot
• 2. bring 4 cups water to boiling point. pour hot water over mixture and boil for 5 min.
• 3. let stand overnight to cool
• 4. next morning preheat oven to 325 degrees
• 5. sift together TWICE the flour and baking soda,stir into cold mixture, add nuts and cherries
• 6. pour into 4 loaf pans and bake 1 1/2 hours. cool completely,then wrap in tinfoil
• 7. NOTE: I use green and red cherries. walnuts or pecans

SPICE CAKE (WAR CAKE)

Steps:

• Boil sugar, water, shortening, raisins, spices and salt together for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Cool.
• Mix flour, baking soda and baking powder together and gradually stir into batter and beat well.
• Bake in greased cake pan in slow oven (300 or 325 degrees) for 1 hour.

WAR CAKE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan over heat, mix together 2 cups hot water with brown sugar and shortening. Add raisins, salt, cinnamon and cloves. After mixture begins to bubble, boil 5 minutes longer. Remove from heat and let rest until completely cool. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir flour into cooled mixture. Dissolve baking soda in two teaspoons hot water, and stir into mixture. Mix well. Pour into a greased tube pan. Bake for an hour.

WAR CAKE

Steps:

• Combine raisins, brown sugar, water, lard, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in a 2-quart saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool to room temperature.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10-inch tube pan. Stir together flour and baking soda. Fold dry ingredients into cooled raisin mixture. Spoon into greased pan and bake 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool 5 minutes in pan, then invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.