Format:
Book
Author:
Byrn, Anne, author.
Title:
American cake : from colonial gingerbread to classic layer, the stories and recipes behind more than 125 of our best-loved cakes / Anne Byrn.
Publisher, Date:
Emmaus, Pennsylvania : Rodale, [2016]
©2016
Description:
344 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary:
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.
Subjects:
Cake.
Cake -- United States -- History.
Cake -- United States -- History.
Cake.
Cake.
United States.
United States.
Genre:
Cookbooks.
History.
Cookbooks.
History.
Cookbooks.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-329) and index.
Contents:
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.
LCCN:
2016029092
ISBN:
9781623365431
1623365430
Other Number:
934884678
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
102957
Call Number:
641.86 BYR
Course Reserves:
0
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0
# System items in:
0