Victorian Cakes

By Caroline B. King,

Book cover of Victorian Cakes: A Reminiscence With Recipes

Book description

The author recalls her Victorian childhood and shares popular recipes from the 1880s for cakes, doughnuts, pastries, buns, cookies, and desserts

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Why read it?

1 author picked Victorian Cakes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This delightful memoir/cookbook of a girl and her sisters growing up near Chicago in the late 1800s gives us a glimpse of what kinds of things a middle-class family ate--there were trendy foods back then, just like we have now!

What’s it like? Just imagine if you took all your favorite 19th-century children's books, mashed them all together, and edited out everything except talking about cake. Oh and maybe keep in a few things about fancy outfits and picnics.

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