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What is a Betty? Besides being a pretty name, it is a baked fruit dessert layered with crumbled baked goods, like bread or cake crumbs. Bettys have been around a long time. Ida Bailey Allen in Cooking Menus Service from the 1920s wrote how useful …
Everyone’s favorite stop at the dessert table or the focal point at a formal dinner is the showpiece. And the traditional pièce montée has been around a very long time. In 1864, the Parkinson’s confectionery family talked about creating gum paste vases, nougat baskets, and spun sugar …
What is a cobbler? It can be basically defined as a baked fruit dessert with some kind of crust to it. But, while I usually term cobbler with a biscuit crust, others will identify a cobbler with a pastry crust. Looking back through old cookbooks, …
This great recipe comes from Sunset’s Kitchen Cabinet Recipes, Volume I, a collection of recipes from Sunset magazine originally published from 1929 to 1933. The recipes were used submitted and editor tested. I love all the gorgeous pictures in this book, as shown below. Enclosed …
Steamed or baked fruit dumplings filled with sugared and spiced apples make a nice holiday dessert for modern times. They also made nice desserts in the early 1900’s. The Royal Baker and Pastry Cook from 1911 had many dumplings listed. This one uses suet and the dumplings are …