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IanWitham1
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I think the Italian sentence can be translated as "Sugar improves the cake," or "Sugar improves cake," but they have different meanings in English. My mother made a nice fruit cake but she saw a fruit cake in a shop window that was similar except that the baker had sprinkled sugar on it before putting it in the oven. She did that and it improved her cake. "Sugar improves cake" means sugar improves all cakes and it doesn't.
IanWitham1
770
During the Second World War, carrots were not rationed, but sugar was. The Ministry of Food published recipes for cakes that had grated carrot instead of sugar. They were not great cakes but not having a birthday cake was worse.