Apple Spice Cake
Indian Pudding
This healthy dessert is a great American recipe throughout the year. A quick bake, it can also serve as a fun breakfast recipe in 1918 or today. From Foods That Will Win the War.
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
1/3 cup molasses
1/2 cup tart apple sauce
1/2 cup raisins, dates, prunes or currants (chopped)
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
"Cream butter and sugar. Add egg. Alternate dry ingredients (which have been sifted together) with the liquid. Add fruit last. Beat well. Bake as loaf about 15 minutes, or in muffin pans about 25 minutes."
Here's a delicious American recipe from 1918's Foods That Will Win the War. This simple recipe is easy to assemble and only requires one addition after 20 minutes.
4 cups milk
1/3 cup cornmeal
1/3 cup molasses
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon allspice
"Cook milk and meal in a double boiler 20 minutes; add molasses, salt and vinegar. Pour into greased pudding dish and bake two hours in a slow oven [about 325 degrees]. Serve with milk. This makes a good and nourishing dessert. Serves six."
