I tried a chocolate-cake recipe with no eggs or dairy that dates back to the Great Depression. Known as "Depression cake," the penny-pinching recipe is useful now due to the high price of eggs. I didn ...

As someone who loves to bake, I often find myself scrolling through social media to find new recipes to try. During one of my recent scrolls, I came across people on TikTok and Reddit making a ...

It’s a cake that goes by several names. You’ll hear it called “wacky cake,” “crazy cake” and “war cake,” but most people know it as “Depression cake,” named for its origins during the Great Depression ...

Having breakfast and read the paper. I do it every day. Thursday’s paper brought me a wonderful memory. On the front page of the Food section was a picture of the Depression cake. I was taken back ...

Even though sugar, butter and eggs were rationed during World War II, some families may have lifted their spirits by baking Depression Cake.Buster Dean/Chronicle Nancy White wrote in search of a ...

Last week I was rearranging some things in my kitchen and I came across my great-grandmother Ruth’s recipe for chocolate cake, scribbled on a yellowing index card. My middle name is Ruth, in honor of ...

Info: 757-378-2556. Online at culturecafeva.com. The “depression” in chocolate depression cake does not refer to its mood-altering qualities. Rather, it refers to the Great Depression, when ...

Grandpa and Grandma Potempa arrived from Poland, married and moved their family to our Indiana farm during the uncertainty of the late 1920s. My father Chester, the youngest of my grandparents’ nine ...