Dear Heloise: You printed a recipe for War Cake, but I lost it in a recent move to a new home. Would you please reprint this recipe for me and anyone else who likes tasty desserts?-Daisy B., Norwich, ...

This cake's name refers to some key ingredients the recipe doesn't call for, which were rationed in America during World Wars I and II: butter, milk and eggs. But I like it for what it has aplenty: ...

People tend to get remarkably creative with their foods during wartime. Americans in World War II, for instance, had their "Emergency Steaks" (which were actually fashioned from ground beef), while ...

This cake’s name refers to some key ingredients the recipe doesn’t call for, which were rationed in America during World Wars I and II: butter, milk and eggs. But I like it for what it has aplenty: ...

FOUND: Pam Trepanier of North Haven wrote: “As an avid reader of your weekly column in the New Haven Register, I thought you might be able to help your readers and me with this recipe request. There ...

The other evening, I sent my husband to the grocery store. He telephoned from the dairy aisle to say the type of milk I wanted was not to be found. 'Are you sure?” I asked. 'I know it's there.” And as ...

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A friend called from Chicago over the weekend. He’d been traveling and needed to restock his kitchen from his long time away. “I’d seen the pictures,” he said. “But I wasn’t prepared for the reality.

For more than 25 years, I've thought about the lives of two women I never met: Esther and Roselyn. I don't have their last names - only a letter that was tucked in the pages of a cookbook purchased at ...

My students can't say I didn't warn them. I teach a U.S. history class at Clarke University in Dubuque. Last week, I began by doing a rundown of the last few weeks of the semester. I told them that ...

FOUND: Pam Trepanier of North Haven wrote: “As an avid reader of your weekly column in the New Haven Register, I thought you might be able to help your readers and me with this recipe request. There ...