The Retro Cake With a Secret Ingredient I Never Saw Coming

The Retro Cake With a Secret Ingredient I Never Saw Coming

This is not an ingredient you'll find in the baking aisle.Simply Recipes / Nathan Scott HutsenpillerIf there's one thing that stands out about Great Depression-era baking, it's how resourceful home cooks managed to be with almost nothing available. Ingredients taken for granted today, like eggs, butter, cream, and sugar, were often too expensive or hard to find.I'm so impressed with how often bakers leaned on unexpected substitutions to make thi…