Royal Baking Powder Co.
Autore di Any One Can Bake
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-57405)
Opere di Royal Baking Powder Co.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Utenti
- 196
- Popolarità
- #111,885
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 7
First off, it’s interesting to me that these were called “receipts”, vs. “recipes”, and I had to do a double-take when I first saw that. The recipes reflect a different time – they are more basic, and oftentimes just a list of ingredients with little instructions as to the cooking process, so that 10-20 of them fit on a single page, all variations on a theme, e.g. “lemon pies”. There are eyebrow-raising categories, such as “pork cakes”, nestled in between “orange cakes” and “sponge cakes”. I smile at some of them, like the “lemon drink” recipe from a Sadie N. Lehman of Columbia, Pa. that calls for 7 lbs of white sugar. I’m tempted to try this(?!), but for the interested reader, the rest of the recipe: 2 qts of boiling water; boil for 10 minutes; take off and stand till cool; add 2 oz tartaric acid; ½ oz gum Arabic; 54 drops essence lemon. Voila!
The book is, of course, just a vehicle for the Royal Baking Powder Co. to get its baking powder listed in the ingredients for the recipes where that makes sense (there are a lot of cakes, bread, etc), and to devote a few pages at the end warning the public against unsafe, less pure bulk baking powders, that may contain “poisonous alum”. However, it’s an interesting little window into cooking and advertising, 120 years ago in America.… (altro)