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Trench Cake: The Eggless WWI Cake to Bake for Remembrance Day

Pamela Foster · November 10, 2026 ·

The image features a freshly baked square trench cake dusted with powdered sugar, sitting on parchment paper next to a slice, a cake server, a fork, and a wire cooling rack on a rustic wooden table

Wednesday, November 11 is Remembrance Day in Britain and across the Commonwealth, and Veterans Day in the United States. Both began as Armistice Day, the day the guns of the First World War fell silent at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918. If you'd like to mark it in your kitchen, … [Read more...] about Trench Cake: The Eggless WWI Cake to Bake for Remembrance Day

Filed Under: *Blog, Budget Saver, Fun Food History Tagged With: Armistice Day, Downton Abbey Season 2, Downton Abbey Season 5, eggless baking, eggless fruit cake, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day baking, Remembrance Day recipe, trench cake, trench cake recipe, Veterans Day, Veterans Day recipe, World War 1 cake, World War I, WWI trench cake

Branson vs. (Rabbie) Burns Broth

Pamela Foster · January 23, 2012 ·

  It's the season for soup in northern climes, so it is fitting that soup figures prominately in S2E3 (and 4) of Downton Abbey. In Episode 3, the famous General Sir Herbert Strutt comes to inspect Downton Abbey, which has been newly transformed into a convalescent … [Read more...] about Branson vs. (Rabbie) Burns Broth

Filed Under: Downton - Season 2 Tagged With: Abbey Cooks Entertain, Branson's Broth, Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey Food, Downton Abbey recipes, Downton Abbey Season 2, Rabbie Burns meal, Robbie Burns, Robbie Burns Dinner, Robert Burns, soup

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