Lest We Forget

Tomorrow, November 11, is Rememberance Day/ Veteran's Day.

On the eleventh day, of the eleventh month at the eleventh hour (11.A.M.) please stop for a moment to give thanks to our brave men and women who fought and gave their lives for the freedom we enjoy today. There are many ceremonies and parades in different communities to honour and remember those who served. Wreaths are placed at the cenotaphs for our fallen soldiers. Mothers, who have lost their son or daughter who served in recent wars, are honoured.

The statue in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada to honour the men and women of WW1, WW11 and the Korean War.

This is the poppy I have been wearing on my jacket since last week. They are available at the legions and as I look around the town I see most people, young and old, are sporting one.

My father, two of his brothers and many cousins left Canada for Overseas to take part in WW11. My mother, from Co. Mayo. Ireland, was a nurse in England when the war was on.

Here’s a photo of them around the time we were married during the war in 1943.

When my father was living, even at 85 years old, he always dressed up in his legion jacket and cap and marched in the Rememberance Day parade that was held at his hometown. Not many of the soldiers from that war left now.

One way I pay tribute is to whip up a wartime recipe of a War Cake. I plan to make one tomorrow.

In wartime certain foods such as eggs, sugar, butter and milk were rationed. The cake is made with simple ingredients and often was wrapped up and sent overseas for the soldiers in the trenches by a member of the family.

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#Recipe for War Cake:

Boil together on stove for 3 minutes- 2 cups water, 2 cups raisins, 1 cup molasses.

add 2/3 cup of shortening while mixture still warm.

Let mixture cool-

Add:

3 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder.
1 tsp baking soda dissolved in 1 tsp. hot water
3 tsp cinnamon

Mix thoroughly and put in greased tube pan or 2 loaf pans in 350 degree preheated oven. Bake approximately 1 hour.

When cake is removed from oven a glaze can be put on while it is still warm by saving a couple Tblp. of the boiled water mixture and add a drop of vanilla, some icing sugar, pinch of salt. Make sure it is thin enough to drizzle gently over the cake.

Enjoy the War Cake with a nice cup of tea or coffee and let us not forget.

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