Who invented carrot cake,and zucchini bread?

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I mean who thinks " I want dessert, lets grab some vegetables"

Answer 1

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During WW2, in Europe, and especially the UK, which was cut off from the rest of the world (a lot of supply was imported from the colonies), people were encouraged to use whatever was available to cook. Potatoes and other root vegetables (such as carrots) were staple foods in the UK at that time - potatoes and carrots are rich in carbs (carbs are sugar) and were extremely useful in those days when sugar was NOT available (in the UK sugar was rationed until serveral years after the war). Carrot cake is also typical of central European countries for the same reasons.

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great info. I would have rated your answer 5 stars but i'm an american and resent you refering to our shipping you everything you needed and bailing you out of wwII as "A lot of supplies was imported from the colonies" Britain hasn't been a major colonial power in 2 centuries

Answer 2

Don't ya think they were first done due to someone working with what they had? I mean seriously, don't be so narrow minded.

Answer 3

A mother desperate to get nutritionally sound foods into her family!

Answer 4

Carrott cake was Probably first made by the best bakers in the natural world... The Pen Dutch or Amish...

They make anything delicious!

When these things were invented... It was probably in a time before sugar was ever bleached and processed... Therefore natural sources of sweetness were used. Carrots are naturally sweet as are raisins... But zucchini bread is not meant to be sweet at all so...

Some of like both and prefer them to the over processed garbage found in things like entenmann's and Sarah Lee any day!

Answer 5

Vegetarians!!