According to military museum facts, Canadian soldiers ate canned meats such as Spam and Bully Beef, either alone or in stews. They also consumed high-energy and emergency rations such as hardtack ...

This vintage pudding cake recipe uses pantry staples like flour, brown sugar, corn syrup, raisins, and milk, topped with a rich, bubbling brown sugar sauce that forms during baking. It’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...

wartime cake with raisins sliced on a blue plate - Jessica Leyva Alarcon/Shutterstock Food and drink can often be a window into the past, from coffee's prevalence in American culture being largely ...

Seventy-five years ago Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States entered World War II. That Christmas holiday, and the ones during the war years, were ...

This Hungarian honey cake is deeply flavored with ginger, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon. The dough is more like a gingerbread biscuit than a tender sponge cake; it softens as it sits. It’s best made ...

Over the years, all 10 of Kitty Morse’s cookbooks have happily made a path to my kitchen. But her most recent book, “Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France,” made ...