Tag: cake recipe
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Carrot Cake
This recipe is a variant, loosely, on the Splendid Spice Cake recipe. With… changes. For one thing, I reduced the overall sugar just a touch. And I took the liqud back a bit, to allow for the addition of carrots. I customized the spice blend to favor carrot’s innate flavors, which included the addition of…
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The Lady’s Cake
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.…
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Which Cake to Make?
A while back, when I was doing the Vintage Kitchen series, I acquired some antique cookbooks through various means, including a friend on social media who is a book dealer and would pop into my dm’s with hey, want a book? So yeah, I did want a book. Which is how I wound up with…
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Blood Orange Ricotta Cake
This recipe came out of two things: first, I had ricotta that needed to be used up, and blood oranges to do something with. Two, my dear son had taken the bit between his teeth and was raring to make a cooking video. Without further ado, the recipe: Blood Orange Ricotta Cake Preheat the…