American cake : from colonial gingerbread to classic layer, the stories and recipes behind more than 125 of our best-loved cakes Cover Image

American cake : from colonial gingerbread to classic layer, the stories and recipes behind more than 125 of our best-loved cakes / Anne Byrn.

Summary:

"Tracing cakes chronologically from the dark, moist gingerbread of New England to the elegant pound cake, the hardscrabble Appalachian stack cake, war cakes, deep-South caramel, Hawaiian Chantilly, and the modern California cakes of orange and olive oil, Byrn shares recipes, stories, and a behind-the-scenes look into what cakes we were baking back in time."--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781623365431
ISBN: 1623365430
Physical Description: 344 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Publisher: Emmaus, Pennsylvania : Rodale, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-329) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1650 to 1799: baking cakes in early America -- 1800 to 1869: new cakes & new directions -- 1870-1899: a scientific approach: baking powder & Fanny Farmer -- 1900 to 1916: birth of the American layer cake -- 1917 to 1945: baking in the good times & the bad times -- 1946 to 1962: Tupperware, Bake-Offs,® & a new domesticity -- 1963 to 1979: American cake times are a-changin' -- 1980 to 1999: cakes born in the USA -- 2000 to the present: the cakes of the new millennium -- Frostings & icings.