--- title: World War II Recipes: Victory Cake and Economy Loaf description: The recipes — from cookbooks in the collection of the National WWII Museum — were written with rationing in mind canonical: https://time.com/4791207/victory-cake-economy-loaf-world-war-ii-recipes/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-09T14:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:13.462Z article:section: History og:title: Here's How to Make 'Victory Cake' With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front og:description: The recipes were written with rationing in mind og:url: https://time.com/4791207/victory-cake-economy-loaf-world-war-ii-recipes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt510e3c4d4dbab2ee/6988ce88cd1bbae25a70552d/3q9a6446.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: WWII cookbook og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How to Make 'Victory Cake' With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front twitter:description: The recipes were written with rationing in mind twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt510e3c4d4dbab2ee/6988ce88cd1bbae25a70552d/3q9a6446.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How to Make 'Victory Cake' With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 9, 2017 2:00 PM UTC  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibitionCourtesy of The National World War II Museum  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 9, 2017 2:00 PM UTC It was the very end of 1940 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt [summed up for the American people](http://time.com/vault/issue/1941-01-06/page/11/) the role he saw them taking in a world at war. Though the U.S. had not yet entered World War II — [Pearl Harbor ](https://time.com/4589051/pearl-harbor-children/)was almost a year away — the war had swept much of the globe, and citizens already had an important task in front of them: “We must be the great arsenal of democracy,” he said. The U.S. was to be the supplier for its allies, of both materiel and will. Roosevelt didn’t come up with the phrase “arsenal of democracy” himself. When Roosevelt heard French economist Jean Monnet use the phrase, he had gone so far as to put out a request, through an intermediary, for Monnet not to use it again. Roosevelt wanted to deploy it with more force, according to [Josh Zeitz at _Politico_](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/roosevelt-arsenal-of-democracy-speech-213483). It was so evocative that it became an image of the role of the American home front that endured after the U.S. joined the war, and after that. The phrase now gives its name to [_The Arsenal of Democracy: The Herman and George Brown Salute to the Home Front,_](http://www.nationalww2museum.org/us-freedom-pavilion-the-boeing-center/arsenal-of-democracy.html) which opens to the public at the National WWII Museum on Saturday. There are nine separate galleries that focus on the story of World War II as it unfolded in the United States — including one gallery that takes visitors inside a reconstructed American home from the 1940s featuring artifacts from the era, which were used as reference material for LIFE VR’s [_Remembering Pearl Harbor_](http://time.com/4577616/remembering-pearl-harbor-history/) virtual-reality experience. One example of just deeply the war affected those at home in the U.S. can be found in cookbooks like these, which are featured in the exhibition. Written with [wartime rationing](http://time.com/vault/issue/1942-02-16/page/16/) and scarcity in mind, they advised the American homemaker on ideas about how to feed their families properly without using up too many of their supplies. Sugar, meat and eggs may be more plentiful than they were back then — but you can still try these World War II-era recipes at home. **ONE-EGG VICTORY CAKE, from the Royal Baking Powder cookbook:** --- > “” --- **ECONOMY LOAF, from the Modern Hostess Cookbook:** --- > “” ---  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition Courtesy of The National World War II Museum  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition Courtesy of The National World War II Museum  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition Courtesy of The National World War II Museum  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition Courtesy of The National World War II Museum  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition Courtesy of The National World War II Museum  An artifact from the new National World War II Museum 'Arsenal of Democracy' exhibition Courtesy of The National World War II Museum ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4791207/victory-cake-economy-loaf-world-war-ii-recipes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4791207/victory-cake-economy-loaf-world-war-ii-recipes/"},"headline":"Here's How to Make 'Victory Cake' With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front","datePublished":"2017-06-09T14:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:42:13.462Z","description":"The recipes were written with rationing in mind","url":"https://time.com/4791207/victory-cake-economy-loaf-world-war-ii-recipes/","keywords":["museums","Living","photography","World War II","Cooking","food and drink","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt510e3c4d4dbab2ee/6988ce88cd1bbae25a70552d/3q9a6446.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt510e3c4d4dbab2ee/6988ce88cd1bbae25a70552d/3q9a6446.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"WWII cookbook","caption":"WWII-era cookbook for the home front","creditText":"Courtesy of The National World War II Museum","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/museums/","name":"museums"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4791207/victory-cake-economy-loaf-world-war-ii-recipes/","name":"Here's How to Make 'Victory Cake' With a Recipe From the World War II Home Front"}}]}] ```