Old School Pastry from PastrySampler.com
Think angel food cake is a recent invention? Angel food cake has been around a very long time, and the author of The American Pastry Cook, Jessup Whitehead, goes into detail about its origins way back in 1894, and makes you appreciate this gem of …
Think fruitcake as the base for wedding cake is old fashioned? You would be very correct. But it is also very much en vogue, as they reported for the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton is to be made of traditional fruitcake. The …
Here are several unusual recipes. Will you recreate them? These pies are from American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons from 1798. Tongue Pie: Made with tongue, apples, sugar, raisins & currants, and spices. Foot Pie: Made with calf’s feet that was first placed in a vessel …
This recipe is adapted from ‘The Royal Baker and Pastry Cook: A Manual of Practical Receipts for Home Baking and Cooking’ by the Royal Baking Powder Company. This paperback was published in 1911, and here is a picture of my copy. The paperback book also …