Baking Hope in Hard Times - No. 39

How an old war cake feels relevant today

One of America’s greatest cakes goes by many names - Cowboy Cake, War Cake, or Depression Cake.

MY OLDER SISTER BAKED ME a loaf of our mother’s banana bread last year. She had never baked banana bread before, and if that wasn’t a sea-change moment, I don’t know what was.

The fact that homemade banana bread was the most-baked recipe of 2020 says a lot abou…