You probably don't recall my friend Meta (https://historylive.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/meet-my-new-friend-meta/), but I still have the two-volume cookbook. A month or so ago I decided to make dinner from some version of her menus (I rarely have the ingredients on hand to follow one exactly), and wound up with this for dessert: Cocoa Bread Pudding 1-1/2 cups evaporated … Continue reading Meta Makes Me Sift Bread Crumbs
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Small Basic Cake (ca. 1937)
Alas, it's been a while since I ran across anything from general history that's interesting enough to report on here! But I am still using my vintage pamphlet collection. Last week I baked a cake from the Sands, Taylor & Wood Co., aka King Arthur Flour (previously mentioned here), and it was excellent. The first … Continue reading Small Basic Cake (ca. 1937)
Vintage Cookery and Baking Powder Amounts
I've been short of time for my regular historical research projects, but I have two large bags of apples and went through my pamphlets in search of recipes. While I was at it, I decided to look into the baking powder question, when has been troubling me since my Davis Baking Powder layer cake came … Continue reading Vintage Cookery and Baking Powder Amounts
That was then, this is then: Perfect bread
One of my "vintage cooking pamphlets" is really a small book (110 pages long) called "Easy Home Baking: Tested Recipes for Breads, Rolls, Cakes, Cookies, Pastries and Desserts," published by Sands, Taylor & Wood Co. - the former name of King Arthur Flour Company - in about 1937. I'm estimating the date from a short … Continue reading That was then, this is then: Perfect bread
Kristen Noble Keegan, Historical Geographer 