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Vintage Cake Recipes

Vintage Cake Recipes

Cake recipes in 1800s cookbooks provided ingredients and amounts, but no real cooking instructions. Stoves were fueled with wood and cooks had to determine which types of wood would provide the heat they needed. They basically had to learn by trial and error – even oven thermometers were not invented yet. Some recipes did offer advice such as cooking in a slow, moderate, or hot oven, but that’s certainly not the detailed advice given in today’s cookbooks. INFORMATION BELOW COMPILED…

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