Baking and Cookies

I inherited an old cookbook that I’ll be using to see what kind of desserts they used to eat before the invention of the electric oven.  I chose the recipe for poverty cake as my first victim because it looked pretty simple. Poverty Cake recipe.        Mix together half a cupful of molasses, half a cupful

I decided to try an old gingersnap recipe when I was trying out some old recipes from a cookbook that I had inherited from my Mother-in-law. The cookbook had belonged to her aunt, who had used it in the 1920’s. I made this recipe from the Marion Harland cookbook, and I think that I’m starting to

Red velvet cake certainly does invite a lot of curiosity. So let’s talk about it and taste some to try out three different recipes that I rounded up. Considering that I don’t really write about recipes too much, I find it ironic that the one cake that I find kind of repulsive because of the food

I finally found a way to prevent my family from eating any cookies that I intend to eat myself by making these salty-sweet cookies..  The trick is to just put something on them that they think is disgusting, but is secretly delicious to you. We made chocolate cookies last week, and I told my daughter

If you make a lot of meringue-based buttercreams, or even a lot of white cakes, you’ll eventually have a day that you have a lot of extra egg yolks.  If you have any sense of not wasting materials, which translates into not wasting money, you’ll probably try to think of something to do with those

Fat-free cake is a big challenge, but I once had a client who had gone through liver failure, and she couldn’t eat any fats at all. Usually, when a client has dietary restrictions you can get around it by using soy products or egg replacers, that kind of thing.  But not being able to use any fat is a little difficult.