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    The history of cake dates back to ancient Greece, where flat cakes called plakous were baked using flour, eggs, nuts, and honey. During the Roman period, similar cakes were called placentas. Early cakes in England were also like bread, though round and flat in shape. Sponge cakes leavened with beaten eggs originated in the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. In the 1930s, a cake-bread mix was developed in the US to deal with surpluses of molasses during the Great Depression, establishing the first boxed cake mix and making cake mass-produced. Later, companies marketed cake mix for convenience, though sales dropped until marketers realized housewives found baking dispirit

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    The history of cake dates back to ancient Greece, where flat cakes called plakous were baked using flour, eggs, nuts, and honey. During the Roman period, similar cakes were called placentas. Early cakes in England were also like bread, though round and flat in shape. Sponge cakes leavened with beaten eggs originated in the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. In the 1930s, a cake-bread mix was developed in the US to deal with surpluses of molasses during the Great Depression, establishing the first boxed cake mix and making cake mass-produced. Later, companies marketed cake mix for convenience, though sales dropped until marketers realized housewives found baking dispirit

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    The history of cake dates back to ancient Greece, where flat cakes called plakous were baked using flour, eggs, nuts, and honey. During the Roman period, similar cakes were called placentas. Early cakes in England were also like bread, though round and flat in shape. Sponge cakes leavened with beaten eggs originated in the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. In the 1930s, a cake-bread mix was developed in the US to deal with surpluses of molasses during the Great Depression, establishing the first boxed cake mix and making cake mass-produced. Later, companies marketed cake mix for convenience, though sales dropped until marketers realized housewives found baking dispirit

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    HISTORY OF CAKE

    History
    The term "cake" has a long history. The word itself is of Viking origin, from the Old
    Norse word "kaka".[2]
    The ancient Greeks called cake πλακοῦς (plakous), which was derived from the word for
    "flat", πλακόεις (plakoeis). It was baked using flour mixed with eggs, milk, nuts, and
    honey. They also had a cake called "satura", which was a flat heavy cake. During the
    Roman period, the name for cake became "placenta" which was derived from the Greek
    term. A placenta was baked on a pastry base or inside a pastry case. [3]
    The Greeks invented beer as a leavener, frying fritters in olive oil,
    and cheesecakes using goat's milk.[4] In ancient Rome, the basic bread dough was
    sometimes enriched with butter, eggs, and honey, which produced a sweet and cake-like
    baked good.[5] Latin poet Ovid refers to his and his brother's birthday party and cake in
    his first book of exile, Tristia.[6]
    Early cakes in England were also essentially bread: the most obvious differences
    between a "cake" and "bread" were the round, flat shape of the cakes, and the cooking
    method, which turned cakes over once while cooking, while bread was left upright
    throughout the baking process.[5]
    Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly
    in Spain.[7]
    Cake mixes
    Main article: Baking mix

    Cake mix in plastic packets

    During the Great Depression, there was a surplus of molasses and the need to provide
    easily made food to millions of economically depressed people in the United States.
    [8] One company patented a cake-bread mix to deal with this economic situation, and
    thereby established the first line of cake in a box. In so doing, cake, as it is known today,
    became a mass-produced good rather than a home- or bakery-made specialty.
    Later, during the post-war boom, other American companies (notably General Mills)
    developed this idea further, marketing cake mix on the principle of convenience,
    especially to housewives. When sales dropped heavily in the 1950s, marketers
    discovered that baking cakes, once a task at which housewives could exercise skill and
    creativity, had become dispiriting. This was a period in American ideological history when
    women, retired from the war-time labor force, were confined to the domestic sphere,
    while still exposed to the blossoming consumerism in the US.[9] This
    inspired psychologist Ernest Dichter to find a solution to the cake mix problem in
    the frosting.[10] Since making the cake was so simple, housewives and other in-home
    cake makers could expend their creative energy on cake decorating inspired by, among
    other things, photographs in magazines of elaborately decorated cakes.
    Ever since cake in a box has become a staple of supermarkets and is complemented
    with frosting in a can.

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