Easiest Way to Cook Tasty WWII Ration Chocolate Cake

WWII Ration Chocolate Cake. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa, and salt in mixing bowl. Add vinegar, oil, vanilla, and water and mix well. This old-fashioned Chocolate Ration Cake let's you have a rich dessert without using any of those three baking staples.

Just follow along with the video!-----Get the latest blog posts, podcast episodes, and trailers for The Girl Who. Today is Veterans Day (aka Remembrance Day, Armistice Day). My father was a decorated Veteran of WWII, so today I'm posting a recipe from that era. You can have WWII Ration Chocolate Cake using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of WWII Ration Chocolate Cake

1. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of flour.
2. You need 1 cup of sugar.
3. You need 1 tsp. of baking soda.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of salt.
5. Prepare 1 Tbsp. of white vinegar.
6. It's 1/3 cup of vegetable oil.
7. It's 1 tsp. of vanilla extract.
8. It's 1 cup of water.
9. Prepare 1/4 cup of cocoa.

Times were hard during the War, on the battlefield and on the Homefront. This recipe is for War Time Chocolate Cake. I think it was slightly easier to get sugar and cocoa in the U. S. than other countries, although I've seen several versions of War Time.

WWII Ration Chocolate Cake step by step

1. Lightly grease an 8 inch square pan..
2. Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa, and salt in mixing bowl..
3. Add vinegar, oil, vanilla, and water and mix well..
4. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes..

Minerally, unoaked with lemon and apple fruit character, delicate and well balanced. The verdict: This cake, while delicious, definitely doesn't mask the substitution entirely. The final product was called the "D ration bar," a blend of chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, skim milk powder and oat flour. The viscous mixture proved too thick to move through the normal. WWII Ration Cake: This recipe from World War II was made when rationing was a big issue.

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