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

  Author

  Byrn, Anne author.

  
  

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  Byrn, Anne author.

  Title:

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

  Publication info:

  Emmaus, Pennsylvania : Rodale, [2016]

  Copyright info:

  ©2016

  Physical description:

  344 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

  Content type:

  text

  Medium:

  unmediated

  Format:

  volume

  General Note:

  Includes index.

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-329) and index.

  Contents:

  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.

  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.

  Subject term:

  Cake.

  Subject term:

  Cake--United States--History.

  Genre or Form:

  Cookbooks.

  LCCN:

  2016029092

  ISBN:

  9781623365431 (trade hardcover : acid-free paper)

  ISBN:

  1623365430 (trade hardcover : acid-free paper)

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    HBLL Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    TX 771 .B968 2016	1	Americana	Americana Collection - 1130 HBLL

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  Personal Author:

  Byrn, Anne author.

  Title:

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

  Publication info:

  Emmaus, Pennsylvania : Rodale, [2016]

  Copyright info:

  ©2016

  Physical description:

  344 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

  Content type:

  text

  Medium:

  unmediated

  Format:

  volume

  General Note:

  Includes index.

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-329) and index.

  Contents:

  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.

  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.

  Subject term:

  Cake.

  Subject term:

  Cake--United States--History.

  Genre or Form:

  Cookbooks.

  LCCN:

  2016029092

  ISBN:

  9781623365431 (trade hardcover : acid-free paper)

  ISBN:

  1623365430 (trade hardcover : acid-free paper)