Caraway seed cake cookbooks, including Hannah Glasse's "The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy" (1747) (note that there are recipes for ""cheap seed-cake"" and ""a rich seed-cake, called the nun's cake""), Elizabeth Moxon's "English Housewifery Exemplified" (1764), Amelia Simmons' "American Cookery" (1796), Mary Eaton's "The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary" (1822), and Isabella Beeton's "Book of Household Management" (1861). "Seed cake" and "caraway cake" often have different recipes (see, e.g., recipes number 231 "carraway cake" and number 235 "seed cake" in Elizabeth Moxon's 1764 cookbook, and recipes for "carraway cake" and "seed cake" in Mary Eaton's 1822 cookbook). Caraway seeds
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