Cuisine of Ceredigion a traditional cake made at this time, which is flavoured with caraway seeds. The Threshing Cake, or Cacen Ddyrnu, is a traditional cake made at threshing time and uses buttermilk and bacon fat, which are always available on Welsh farms. Teisen Carawe, or Seed Cake, is another cake using caraway seeds. It is one of the oldest of the Welsh egg-raised cakes and is traditionally associated with chapel and Sunday tea in the parlour. An old Ceredigion recipe is Christmas Cake, or Teisen Ddu Nadolig, which typically includes some home brewed ale. Commercial bakeries developed in urban areas during the
Depression cake the recipe. However, some bakers do include butter. Boiled raisin-type cakes date back at least to the American Civil War. Depression cake has been referred to as “War Cake” by texts dating back to World War I. In a pamphlet distributed by the United States Food Administration in 1918 entitled “War Economy in Food,” War Cake is listed under “Recipes for Conservation Sweets.” The United States Food Administration stressed the importance of reducing sugar consumption during the war and offered molasses, corn syrup, and raisins in its place. When the Great Depression hit America following the Stock Market Crash of