for your entertainment pam lecky's wacky cake where loyalty lies pam lecky finds inspiration in her family's wartime experiences by judy gelman hazel o'shea costco's suggested book club read provides appropriate recipe to accompany your own book club's discussion cocoa powder icing chocolate morsels grease an 8-inch square or whisk dry cake ingredients together in a medium-size wet ingredients into dry prepared pan bake cake for 30 to 35 inserted into the center just a few moist crumbs chocolate morsels with half- and-half in a saucepan over are melted smooth; pour over from the pan or cool and top with icing makes 8 to 10 servings recipe adapted from kingarthurbaking.com "in europe wartime food rationing meant that the normal comfort foods which might have helped ease anxiety mothers struggled to feed their families garden to grow fruit and vegetables and ways of doing things,” explains lecky for a book club discussion of her secret might serve this typical wartime cake- were scarce," she explains enjoy the cake with a cocktail that lecky's heroine sarah is also rather fond am lecky's latest historical novel espionage in war-torn britain during the may 1941 luftwaffe bombing of challenge sarah to prove her loyalty by undertaking a mission to uncover a spy she is drawn into the dark world of world save lives-possibly at the cost of her own from the north strand area of dublin intrigued that my mother and aunts left the safety of rural ireland to work in war- “one aunt was employed in a munitions my mother was a 'clippie'-a conductress- on the buses." although her secret war isn't their are scattered throughout it and its sequel costco connection secret war judy gelman is the creator of the website bookclubcookbook.com her secret war most costco warehouses