WWI War Cake: Rationing & Recipes

During WWI, ingredients like flour and sugar were rationed to feed troops. Governments issued cookbooks with recipes like 'war cake' to help home cooks adapt, using alternate flours and ingredients like molasses and peanut butter. Wartime and economic shifts taught home cooks invaluable lessons in resourcefulness. From rationing to shortages of staples like eggs and flour, history shows us the importance of adapting our kitchen skills. Let's learn from the past to be better prepared for today. Here’s the recipe: https://youtu.be/5ey9_hs6Y4Y?si=STfoXBO_diujDiWN Tag a friend who would love this! ❤️ Hi Sweet Friends, If you are new here, I'm Mary from Mary's Nest: https://marysnest.com/ and the accompanying YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/marysnest where I teach traditional cooking skills using ancestral recipes passed down through history for how to make bone broth, cultured dairy, ferments, sourdough, how to bake with whole grains, as well as how to stock a traditional foods pantry with home preserved foods. 📚 I'm also the author of The Modern Pioneer Cookbook and The Modern Pioneer Pantry both published by Penguin Random House. You can learn more here: https://marysnest.com/modern-pioneer-cookbook-series/ ➡️ Subscribe to my FREE Newsletter here: https://marysnest.com/newsletter/ Let’s stay in touch! 🤗 🎬 This particular “short” is part of a long-form videos titled: “You Won’t Beleive This War Cake Recipe - No Eggs, No Butter, No Sugar - The Poor Man’s Boiled Cake: https://youtu.be/5ey9_hs6Y4Y?si=QcjHHGNWOcICgpgp 📕 If you want to teach young people about how to make traditional foods, you’ll love my FREE K-12 Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum: https://marysnest.com/cookbook-curriculum/ It’s 250+ pages and there is no email required to download it. ➡️ Subscribe to Backwoods Home and/or Self Reliance Magazine and get a 50% off discount: https://marysnest.com/shopping-guide/#backwoods Our ancestors cooked in specific ways to maximize nutrition, and it's important not to lose that knowledge. Keeping traditional ancestral recipes alive, rather than overly tweaking them, honors this wisdom. It ensures we continue to benefit from their methods. Love and God Bless, Mary ❤️🤗❤️ #MarysNest #MaryBryantShrader #MarySharder #TheModernPioneerCookbook #TheModernPioneerPantry #ModernPioneerCookbook #ModernPioneerPantry #TraditionalFoods #ModernPioneer #AncestralFoods #AncestralRecipes #AncestralCooking #TraditionalRecipes #shorts #youtubeshorts #shortsvideo #youtubeshortsvideo #youtubeshort #warcake #depressionera #depressionerarecipes #ww2recipes #worldwar2recipes #WW1History #BakingHistory #Rationing #HomeCooking #HistoricalRecipes