Old School Pastry from PastrySampler.com
A little charm of a book is found and it’s called “A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes, written by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron (illustrations by Elizabeth Coulbourne) and published in 1917 by A.L. Burt Company. This book …
It was brought to my attention that a reader couldn’t access the site. So, upon checking and trying to figure it out it looks like an old theme had broken the site. As in, quite literally and the very helpful techs through my host provider …
Kitchen thermometers are about as common as skewers and are now in just about any supermarket’s kitchen supplies aisle. But what if you were making candy say 80 years ago and they weren’t so common, or more expensive than your budget allowed? Well, you’d still …
Ida Bailey Allen wrote a book Modern Cook Book (or Mrs. Allen on Cooking, Menus Service) from the early 1920s. Those not familiar with Mrs. Allen, she was to America then what Martha Stewart is to America now. She was the first homemaking giant. She …
On the Pastry Sampler Blog, I posted an article on the research and proposed labeling for baking powders sold at the time. Interesting stuff, and people were concerned with ‘truth in labeling’ even in the 1880s.