1917warcake Recipes

WW2 WAR CAKE

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.

WORLD WAR I CAKE 1914-1918

Steps:

• In a medium size saucepan, mix the sugar, water, cinnamon, cloves, salt, shortening and raisins. Boil over medium heat 5 minutes. Set the saucepan away from the stove and let the mixture cool off for 50 minutes or so. Place the saucepan in the the large mixing bowl filled with ice to cool the mixture off quickly.
• Heat the oven up to 350F. Grease a baking dish (tube pan or sheet pan). Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda to the liquid mixture. Stir well. Pour the batter into the baking dish and bake for 1 hour in a tube pan or 30 minutes in a sheet pan. Do not open the oven for the first 20 minutes of baking. Check on the cake doneness with a knife or a toothpick (if it comes out clean, the cake is ready). Let the baked cake sit in the pan for at least 15 minutes before slicing. Sprinkle the cake top with the powdered sugar mixed with the ground cinnamon, if desired.

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.

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.

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. .

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:

• Bring 2 cups water to a boil in a large pot.
• Add pecans.
• Add butter.
• Add ginger.
• Add cinnamon.
• Add brown sugar.
• Add nutmeg.
• Add allspice.
• Add raisins.
• Stir well, let boil for 5 minutes.
• Remove pot from heat and allow mixture to completely cool. (cooling is very important)
• Add baking soda.
• Add ½ cup water.
• Add flour, a little at a time, stirring to combine as you go. Do not overmix.
• Grease and lightly flour 2 - 9inch cake pans.
• Pour batter into pans, dividing equally between both pans.
• Bake in preheated oven, at 350 degrees for 25-35 minutes, or until done. Test with a toothpick or knife.
• Remove cake layers from oven, place on a wire rack, let cool 10 minutes.
• Run a butter knife around the inside of the pan to separate the layer from the edge of the pan.
• Turn layers out of baking pans, let cool completely before icing on the wire racks.

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.

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.