Caraway seed cake were so popular a flavouring that they appear in at least 14 cake or biscuit recipes, as well as other items, including soap, a treatment for "hysterics," and as a bait for rat traps in "The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary". This cake is also known to have been popular in Ireland and Wales. See also Goosnargh Cake (Biscuit/cake named after village in Lancashire) Caraway seed cake Seed cake is a traditional British cake flavoured with caraway or other flavourful seeds. Caraway seeds have been long used in British cookery, and at one time caraway-seed biscuits were prepared
Depression cake produce. A recipe titled "War Cake" was published in M.F.K. Fisher's book "How to Cook a Wolf" and republished in her "The Art of Eating"; it uses bacon grease on the premise that spices will mask its taste. Praised for its practicality and declared to be “the most worthwhile cake ever made,” depression cake is still baked in modern America. The recipe for it has been featured in an array of publications such as The Telegraph-Herald, The Pittsburgh Press, and The Modesto Bee. Some commonly used ingredients in depression cake: Pears were sometimes substituted for apples. An example for a