OT: Ping Larisa

Juno, Larisa may not see your message immediately b/c she's on a break from online groups for a few days getting caught up on other things. I did forward yoru message to her inbox.

Thank you so much. Juno

I'm here and would LOVE the recipe. The one we found online (and that I was able to buy locally) is great to the kids, but nasty to DH and me. I htink the children only like it because it is chocolate, which they aren't allowed to have a lot of.

Would greatly appreciate whatever you can send me!

snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.net

Thanks again!!

Larisa

Hey, would you send the egg less cake receipe to me too!!!???? Many thanks! Barbara in SC

I'll send it out this afternoon. Juno

Thanks bunches! Barbara in SC and now FL

Would that happen to be Wacky Cake, which also goes by a lot of different names like mix-in-the-pan chocolate cake, three-hole cake, or whatever, or is it a different one? This is the only chocolate cake I like, becuase it is so moist:

Wacky Cake

1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon vinegar 5 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 cup cold water

In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt. Make three wells in the flour mixture. In one put vanilla; in another the vinegar, and in the third the oil. Pour the cold water over the mixture and stir until moistened. Pour into 8 x 8-inch pan. Bake at 350°F. oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until it springs back when touched lightly.

Same cake my recipe is for a larger cake that's all

Dear Juno,

I do believe that this is the recipe my mother used during WWII. We used it because we were poor, but it was the best chocolate cake I ever had, and I've been looking for the recipe for years. Would you share, please?

Thanks! Teri

Many people used it because it didn't use rationed goods (butter, milk, and eggs were all rationed during the war). Had very little to do with how much money you had.

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

To Juno,

Thanks so much for the recipe. I'm going to try it asap.

And Jenn, I remember sugar being rationed, but I was only ten, so didn't remember about the other things that were rationed. My mother made a wonderful doughnut with molasses. We used that recipe all the time I was growing up, and when we had games at our parties, everyone tried to lose because Mom gave a bag of doughnut holes as the consolation prize. I've been searching for that recipe for years, too.

Tero

Indeed! My father had worked very hard building a chain of gasoline service stations early in the 40s, only to be hammered by both rationing and the absence of manpower to run them during the war. He ended up at the end of the war with just one station left, and he mostly ran it alone...sometimes 60-90 hours a week. Mom helped, and we kids were "raised" there.

Beverly

Dear Teri, I did a quick google and found quite a few recipes for molasses donuts. I just put molasses donuts in the search box. I didn't copy any down because I don't know which one is similar to what you are looking for. Happy Hunting I also remember sugar, butter and eggs being rationed. Gas, shoes, coffee and beef were also in short supply. We were a little more fortunate than some people because my dad was in essential industry. He worked in a shipyard on Eastern Long Island. He had an A card for gas, and we were able to obtain somethings from the local farmers. My family also had a medical exemption for some things because my brother suffered from a chronic illness and needed a special diet. Mom was very careful not to take advantage because she felt it was unpatriotic. Her youngest brother was in the Marines and stationed in the South Pacific. She said if we had to much he and his buddies might suffer. Juno