Not your typical cake story, this one has solid history and there is an effort afoot to preserve its legacy. It has all the elements of a page turner: tragedy, hope, love, survival and an eye to the future.
This story starts with Alex Buckman, the president of Vancouver Child Survivors of the Holocaust. In a nutshell, after his parents were killed in concentration camps, he was raised by his aunt, who in a woman’s camp secretly wrote down her recipes from memory. This is not about a happy ending, as no Holocaust story is, but about hope and achieving a sense of purpose.
One brief paragraph can’t tell this very moving, but complicated tale, so take a few minutes to read about it here. Better still, take 30 minutes to listen to CBC’s radio documentary, an outcome of which is to inspire people to bake the cake yearly, on Remembrance Day.
The recipe:
The cake: