Maple Syrup Cake
This recipe comes from Igleheart Bros. Cake Secrets, a small cookbook that featured Swans Down cake flour. I would imagine this would only be successful with pure maple syrup.
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Chocolate Steamed Pudding
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 …
Rusks: Quick Bread Recipe
Here is a recipe for Rusks, from The New Royal Cookbook (Royal Baking Powder Company, 1920). Rusks 2 1/4 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons maple or brown sugar 4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 egg 1/3 to …
English Dumplings, Steamed and Baked Apple Dumplings
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 …
Langue de Chat Biscuit – Cat’s Tongues Recipe (Lady Fingers) From 1907
Lady fingers go by a variety of names: ladyfingers (one word), cat’s tongue, and langue de chat (French for cat’s tongue). They are a plain cookie that can be used for lining dessert molds and can handle soaking up liquids without simply falling apart. They …