The vintage baker : more than 50 recipes from Butterscotch pecan curls to sour cream jumbles / Jessie Sheehan ; photographs by Alice Gao.

By:

Sheehan, Jessie

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2018]Description: 176 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781452163871
1452163871

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Cookbooks.

Contents:

Sweet & savory morning treats -- Cookies -- Pies -- Cakes -- Refrigerator desserts -- Confections.

Summary: This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and--surprise!--a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe and how they were tweaked into deliciousness. For home bakers, collectors of vintage cookbooks or kitchenware--really, anyone who loves beautiful, quirky gifts--this is a gem.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	Adult Non-Fiction	641.815 SHE	Available		36748002465377

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and--surprise! --a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe and how they were tweaked into deliciousness. For home bakers, collectors of vintage cookbooks or kitchenware--really, anyone who loves beautiful, quirky gifts--this is a gem.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sweet & savory morning treats -- Cookies -- Pies -- Cakes -- Refrigerator desserts -- Confections.

This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and--surprise!--a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe and how they were tweaked into deliciousness. For home bakers, collectors of vintage cookbooks or kitchenware--really, anyone who loves beautiful, quirky gifts--this is a gem.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction (p. 9)
No 1 Sweet & Savory Morning Treats
Molasses Doughnuts with Chocolate-Ginger Glaze (p. 15)
Chai Banana Fritters (p. 18)
Butterscotch Pecan Curls (p. 20)
Cinnamon-Raisin Flake-Apart Bread (p. 25)
Swedish Tea Rolls (p. 28)
Vanilla Yogurt Coffee Cake (p. 30)
Cacio e Pepe Popovers (p. 33)
"Everything" Buttermilk Biscuits (p. 36)
No 2 Cookies
Cornflake Macaroons with Chocolate Drizzle (p. 41)
Butterscotch-Potato Chip Balls (p. 43)
Sour Cream Jumbles (p. 46)
Sand Tarts (p. 48)
Deep-Fried Cardamom Cookies (p. 51)
Peanut Butter Fingers with Salty Milk Chocolate Glaze (p. 53)
Chocolate-Molasses Crinkles (p. 56)
Lemon-Pepper Shortbread (p. 58)
Black-Bottom Banana Dream Bars (p. 61)
Fig Pincushions (p. 63)
No 3 Pipes
Butterscotch Pie with Rum-Black Pepper Whipped Cream (p. 68)
Lemon Chiffon Pie with Coconut Whipped Cream (p. 71)
Peanut Butter Custard Pie with Marshmallow Whipped Cream (p. 74)
Mexican Hot Chocolate Bavarian Pie (p. 77)
Latticed Blackberry-Lime Pie (p. 81)
Pumpkin-Chocolate Tart with Cinnamon Whipped Cream (p. 83)
Cherry-Almond Slab Pie with Marzipan Crumble (p. 86)
Strawberry-Basil Turnovers (p. 89)
Peach-Graham Cracker Hazelnut Crisp (p. 92)
No 4 Cakes
Devil's Food Sheet Cake with Sea Foam Frosting (p. 97)
Blueberry Angel Food Dream (p. 99)
Chocolate-Hazelnut Meringue Cradle Cake (p. 102)
Chocolate-Peppermint Stick Roll (p. 104)
Silver Cake with Pink Frosting (p. 107)
Coconut Blitz Torte (p. 110)
Caramel-Filled Banana Cupcakes with Penuche Frosting (p. 114)
Raspberry-Marshmallow Upside-Down Cake (p. 118)
"S'more" Graham Cracker Cake (p. 120)
Strawberry Shortcake (p. 122)
Cottage Pudding with Vanilla Sauce (p. 124)
No 5 Refrigerator Desserts
Strawberry-Lemon Charlotte Russe with Thyme Ladyfingers (p. 128)
Coconut-Chocolate Icebox Cake with Toasted Almonds (p. 131)
Vanilla-Rhubarb Icebox Cake (p. 134)
Milk Chocolate Malted Pudding (p. 136)
Maple Parfait with Pecan Sandie Crumble (p. 139)
Salty Caramel Crunch Sundaes with Caramelized Cornflakes (p. 142)
Baked Alaska Sandwich (p. 145)
Ice Cream Cake (p. 149)
No 6 Confections
Hot Fudge Sauce (p. 154)
Salt-and-Pepper Caramels (p. 155)
Curried Candied Cashews (p. 157)
Cinnamon Red Hots Popcorn (p. 158)
Peanut Butter-Marshmallow Kix Trees (p. 159)
Honey-Roasted Peanut Brittle (p. 162)
Chocolate-Marshmallow-Walnut Fudge with Sea Salt (p. 165)
Cream Puffs with Pistachio Pastry Cream (p. 166)
Basic Techniques (p. 168)
Acknowledgments (p. 170)
Booklet Credits (p. 171)
Index (p. 172)