Family Mission: An Eggless Sponge

Food and Rationing
Families

Can you really make a tasty cake from vegetables?

Put yourself in the shoes (or the taste-buds!) of families in the Second World War. Rationing meant that foods such as eggs, butter and meat were often in short supply. Ingenuity and inventiveness were needed to satisfy a family’s sweet tooth. Get together to try this Eggless Jam Sponge recipe, hot from the IWM archives.

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Mission Briefing

Part of the Family Mission series created during the UK lockdown in Spring 2020

Please note: This video contains instrumental sound only.

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Cakes Made From Carrots

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Women and men queuing outside Wood Green in 1945

Second World War

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