Wartime Vlog & Baking: Carrot Fruit Cake from a WWII Cookbook

Shop the Diary ✨ I've gathered my favorite frugal tools and pantry essentials in my storefront for you: https://amzn.eu/d/03QUtadG Disclosure: I am an Amazon Associate and may earn from qualifying purchases made through this link. Join me for a wartime baking vlog as I make an authentic carrot fruit cake using a WWII-era cookbook. 🥕🍰 This recipe comes straight from a 1940s wartime kitchen, created to work with rationed ingredients and simple cupboard staples. In this video, I share the baking process, and show how wartime home cooks made comforting treats despite shortages. If you enjoy wartime cooking, historical recipes, vintage homemaking, and slow living, this is a gentle step back into a WWII British kitchen. Also in this video I'm showing you this weeks extreme frugal shopping for £35 for 2 adults to cook my war ration meals from my wartime cookbooks #WartimeBaking #WWIICooking #1940sRecipes #VintageHomemaking Enjoy ..xx If you liked this video and want to show your support for my channel, you can do so in the following ways:😊😊 Like, Comment and subscribe - these are free to do and will really help me grow my new channel 😀 You can also buy me a coffee via my KOFI Page if you want to help out with the running costs of the channel or buy me a coffee/beer: or STRIPE & THE GIRLS A TREAT 😀🎉😊 https://ko-fi.com/wildwoodcottagediary Link to my other craft & knitting channel https://www.youtube.com/ @faithfuleweknittingpodcast MY SHOPS KO-FI https://ko-fi.com/faithfulewe/shop ETSY https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Faithfulewe If you would like to support my work here on youtube your support really does mean a lot....😊😊🐓🐓🐓🐓💖💖 Lots of love Hazel xx❤️😊🎉🌼🌺🐓🌻 My other knitting & craft Channel    / @wildwoodcottagecrafts   This is where i share all my knitting & crafty makes if you are interested in the kind of thing pop over & say hello... 😀😀🧶🧶🧶 Hi, I’m Hazel, and welcome to Wildwood Cottage — a frugal living UK channel inspired by wartime skills, self-sufficiency, and simple living. I live in a remote cottage in Wales with a steep, once-neglected garden that was lovingly tended for over 50 years by a gentleman who lived to 97. Today, I’m transforming it into a Dig for Victory kitchen garden, growing organic food, flowers & fruit whilst working towards self-sufficiency. During today’s cost of living crisis, I’m following a long-term wartime challenge, cooking from 1940s ration books, growing my own food, and living extremely frugally — spending as little as possible while still eating and living well. On this channel you’ll find: Wartime ration cooking Dig for Victory gardening Frugal living UK Simple, slow & mindful living Preserving, fermenting & no-waste skills I document my journey turning this garden into a thriving, wildlife-friendly space that sustains us through the seasons. I post 2–3 videos a week, depending on the (very slow!) rural Wi-Fi. If you enjoy wartime wisdom, frugal living, and learning from the past, you’re very welcome here 🌱 A cottage in the Woods A cottage garden in wales Sheep on the hills The seasons changing seamlessly Striving for selfsufficiency & growing my own food delighting in keeping my own chickens