Old Time Baking Tips: Rules to Baking from 1832

Old Time Baking Tips: Rules to Baking from 1832

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, 

Seven Unusual Baked Goods: Tongue and Foot Pie, Meat and Blood Bread, and Pork Cake

Seven Unusual Baked Goods: Tongue and Foot Pie, Meat and Blood Bread, and Pork Cake

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