It also contains one special vintage ingredient you likely have never heard of (or tried): watermelon rind preserves. Yep, you heard us. One of the main ingredients in poor man's cake is fruit ...

In the field they don't stop to thump the watermelons, they just look at them." The watermelon rind often provides clues to its ripeness, Egel said. "A watermelon that is ripe will be faded on the top ...