Dear Heloise: You printed a recipe for War Cake, but I lost it in a recent move to a new home. Would you please reprint this recipe for me and anyone else who likes tasty desserts?-Daisy B., Norwich, ...

People tend to get remarkably creative with their foods during wartime. Americans in World War II, for instance, had their "Emergency Steaks" (which were actually fashioned from ground beef), while ...

wartime cake with raisins sliced on a blue plate - Jessica Leyva Alarcon/Shutterstock Food and drink can often be a window into the past, from coffee's prevalence in American culture being largely ...

FOUND: Pam Trepanier of North Haven wrote: “As an avid reader of your weekly column in the New Haven Register, I thought you might be able to help your readers and me with this recipe request. There ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Yield: 16 servings. For cake: 2 to 3 cups raisins> or chopped >dates> 2 cups granulated sugar> To prepare cake:> Preheat the oven ...

Seventy-five years ago Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States entered World War II. That Christmas holiday, and the ones during the war years, were ...

For more than 25 years, I've thought about the lives of two women I never met: Esther and Roselyn. I don't have their last names - only a letter that was tucked in the pages of a cookbook purchased at ...

Picture this: you're rummaging through your pantry in 1933, desperate to bake something sweet for your family. You've got no eggs. No milk. No butter. Yet somehow, you create a cake that's moist, rich ...

“Food is ammunition,” says the poster from World War I. “Don’t waste it.” One hundred years ago this year, the war ended. It was so horrifying, so unlike anything mankind had seen before, that the ...