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:
Hi Li - your cake looks great. I heard the CBC item you mentioned and copied out the recipe but was hesitant as it has such a lot of sugar! How did it taste? I was at the NSCR AGM last week. It was excellent and I especially enjoyed seeing some of our old colleagues. A couple of them said they had been out to see you in your new home. I was envious. It would be nice if we could have coffee sometime and I would certainly like to see your place. Maybe in the New Year?
All is fairly well with us but there have been some changes. Cheers,
Barb
Posted by: Barbara MacLellan | November 30, 2018 at 05:58 PM
Thank you for sharing this story and recipe.
Posted by: Kristen Chambers | December 13, 2018 at 05:18 PM