BOILED CAKE (AKA DEPRESSION CAKE, WAR CAKE, POOR MAN'S CAKE)
A popular cake from WWI and The Great Depression that uses no eggs, butter, or milk.
Provided by A Coalcracker in the Kitchen
Categories Recipes
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- In a saucepan combine shortening, water, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves and sugar. Bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand until COMPLETELY cool.
- Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch baking pan, a Bundt pan, or 9 x 5-inch 2 loaf pans. Set aside.
- Stir the flour and baking soda into the cooled raisin mixture and mix until just combined and flour is mostly incorporated.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 minutes for a 9 x 13-inch pan or until the top of the cake is just firm to the touch. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- Traditionally served un-frosted.
Nutrition Facts :
FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCH CAKE RECIPE - (3.9/5)
Provided by MJH
Number Of Ingredients 11
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 1 CAKE
This is an old recipe that has been passed down from generations past, and is so good. I hadn't heard of it for a few years, ahd then here it was, sent to me by my niece. I had to share it with you.
Provided by Chef mariajane
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 4 loaves
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In the evening, mix together the first 9 ingredients in a large pot. Bring 4 cups water to a boiling point. Pour hot water over mixture and boil for 5 minutes. Let stand overnight to cool.
- Next morning, sift together twice the flour and baking soda, and stir into cold mixture. Add currants and cherries. Pour into 4 loaf pans, and bake at 325F for about 1 1/2 hours.
- Cool completely, then wrap in foilwrap.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 2478.7, Fat 54.4, SaturatedFat 13.5, Sodium 2398.3, Carbohydrate 492.5, Fiber 14.7, Sugar 315.3, Protein 25.9
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.
WW2 WAR CAKE
An eggless, almost fatless, milkless cake, very aptly named - it was popular during wartime shortages. It is dense and delicious uniced. For those who yearn for a good cake, but must resist fat, this will do it.
Provided by Naomi Schoenfeld
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Yield 15 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Place the brown sugar, water, raisins.
- oil, cinnamon, and cloves in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Cook gently for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and let cool until the mixture is comfortably warm to your finger.
- While the mixture is cooling, preheat t he oven to 350F.
- Grease and flour an 8x4-inch baking pan.
- Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Add them to the cooled sugar mixture, beating until no drifts of flour are visible and the batter is smooth.
- Stir in the walnuts.
- Spread evenly in the baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a broomstraw inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a rack to cool completely.
- Notes: For a good glaze, even if it is a 90's addition, save back a bit of the hot spiced water.
- Mix with confectioner's sugar, a drop of vanilla, and a pinch salt. Glaze the cake while hot.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 172.4, Fat 4.5, SaturatedFat 0.5, Sodium 137.7, Carbohydrate 32.3, Fiber 1.1, Sugar 20.1, Protein 2.2
WAR CAKE
War Cake uses ingredients that were available to the average household during World War II. Great served with whipped topping!
Provided by Stephanie
Categories Desserts Cakes Spice Cake Recipes
Yield 18
Number Of Ingredients 11
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. .
Nutrition Facts : Calories 220 calories, Carbohydrate 35.7 g, Fat 8.3 g, Fiber 1.4 g, Protein 2.7 g, SaturatedFat 1.4 g, Sodium 224.1 mg, Sugar 16.9 g
WORLD WAR 1 CAKE
I have include a personal note from my Mother with the recipe. This recipe has been around for more then a 100 years now. My mother was born in 1910. Her memory was from 1916.
Provided by Bonnie Beck
Categories Cakes
Time 1h15m
Number Of Ingredients 10
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.
WORLD WAR 1 CAKE
This is my grandmother Della's recipe.She said her mother made this cake (bread) when she was a child, and that my grandfather called it her world war 1 cake because she baked it the first time for him when he came home on leave.
Provided by Linda Woodham
Categories Fruit Desserts
Time 2h
Number Of Ingredients 13
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
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