Susan
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- "in the event of a NON-TRADITIONAL landing. . . "
- A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn
- BALLETCATESSEN
- Cupcakes Rings and Glittery Things
- Facing Forty Upside Down
- honey & lulu
- The Water Is Wide
- This is How I Cook
- Vintage Kitchen
- Wannabe Baker & Avid Homemaker
| Location | Brooklyn, New York |
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| Introduction | I love to bake, especially from the treasured recipes of home cooks, the kind of recipes typed or hand-written on index cards, or carefully pasted in scrapbooks. I have a large collection of these, gathered over the years from flea markets, stoop sales and estate sales. These "lost" recipes, with their stains and annotations like "good, from mother's book," provide a window into the past, and one that I'm trying to pry open, one stick of butter at a time! I'm also investigating Mrs. Grace Osborn of Bay City, Michigan, who published (or probably self-published) a cake book in 1919, instructing women on her (wacky) cake baking methods and encouraging them to bake for recognition and profit, that being one of the few acceptable ways for women to earn money back then. More on her in upcoming posts! |