Cedar Writes

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  • The Lady’s Cake

    The Lady’s Cake

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    This is a recipe from Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book, published in 1880.  It was the Gilded Age in the United States, and the height of the Victorian Era in the British Empire. Wabash, Indiana became the first city in the world lit by electric lights. Thomas Edison tests his electric railway in New Jersey.…

  • Vintage Kitchen: Lemon Pie

    Vintage Kitchen: Lemon Pie

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    My grandmother posted a photo of a lemon pie she’d made, and I saw it and thought ‘that looks good! I should get the recipe.’ And then this morning while I was standing in the kitchen talking about the menu planning with the First Reader, I picked up one of the antique cookbooks and looked…