Depression cake
Scarcity-era sweet
Depression cake is a cake made without eggs, butter, or milk—ingredients that were scarce or expensive during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The recipes typically use vinegar and baking soda for leavening, and vegetable oil or shortening for fat.
Also called war cake, wacky cake, or crazy cake, these recipes remain popular for their simplicity and for accommodating dairy and egg allergies.
- egglessContaining no ova
- home frontCivilian sector during war
- butterlessLacking creamy spread
- inexpensiveLow in cost
- recipeCooking preparation instructions
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