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Many old cookbooks have one or more different versions of a ‘war cake’ or depression cake’. These cakes were specially created to bake without eggs, butter, milk, and sometimes even sugar, as all these ingredients were saved for the soldiers during the war. It may …
AbeBooks is an awesome place to come hang out. I’ve found both rare ichthyology books and collective old cookbooks. While none of these top last month’s list, the top 10 include works of Paris, from Picasso, and about the body, the ubiquitous medical book Anatomy: …
Here’s a good tip from Miss Leslie’s book Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, published in 1832: There can be no positive rules as to the exact time of baking each article. Skill in baking is the result of practice, attention, and experience. Much, …
The chocolate themed cookbook from 1909, Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes, by Miss Parloa has many great recipes all revolving around chocolate products such as chocolate blocks, cocoa powder, baker’s chocolate squares, and German sweet chocolate. The book also contains Home Made Candy Recipes by Mrs. …
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 …