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 ...

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm someone who enjoys recreating recipes and trying innovative ways to make something old feel like new. From Rihanna's unique spin on macaroni and cheese to a 150-year ...

Our Depression-era wacky cake is moist, fluffy, and chocolately, with a tender crumb, it just happens to be vegan, and it comes together in the baking pan.

Think about the last time you rummaged through your pantry, determined to create something decent with just flour, sugar, and ...

Wacky Cake, also known as Depression Cake, was popularized during World War II when rationing certain ingredients was essential to support the war effort. The groundbreaking recipe, which doesn’t call ...

Why Make Depression-Era Recipes? If you have parents or grandparents who grew up in that era, you no doubt have heard stories about the ways people got creative to get by. Throughout this period, a ...

Grandparents often have some, well, odd wisdom to share. Like the time I had a sore throat and my grandpa told me to take silver nitrate — not exactly conventional. Sometimes their advice came from a ...