American cake : from colonial gingerbread to classic layer, the stories and recipes behind more than 125 of our best-loved cakes from past to present
Anne Byrn (Author)
"Tracing cakes chronologically from the dark, moist gingerbread of New England to the elegant pound cake, the hardscrabble Appalachian stack cake, war cakes, deep-South caramel, Hawaiian Chantilly, and the modern California cakes of orange and olive oil, Byrn shares recipes, stories, and a behind-the-scenes look into what cakes we were baking back in time."--Back cover
Cookbooks
344 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
9781623365431, 1623365430
934884678
1650 to 1799: baking cakes in early America
1800 to 1869: new cakes & new directions
1870-1899: a scientific approach: baking powder & Fanny Farmer
1900 to 1916: birth of the American layer cake
1917 to 1945: baking in the good times & the bad times
1946 to 1962: Tupperware, Bake-Offs, ® & a new domesticity
1963 to 1979: American cake times are a-changin'
1980 to 1999: cakes born in the USA
2000 to the present: the cakes of the new millennium
Frostings & icings