Wartime Christmas Cake

Elizabeth Craig, 1941, Cooking in Wartime¹¹⁷

Wartime recipes were a mixture of sensible suggestions based on poverty cookery from the past, and more far-fetched solutions dreamt up in desperation and longing for pre-war largesse. With sugar, fat, dried fruit and fuel rationed, and spice in short supply, at Christmas cakes and puddings were particularly problematic. This recipe was