The Victorian book of cakes : a treasury of recipes for cakes, biscuits, cookies, icings, frostings and sweet confections from the golden age of cake making and decorating
Lewis, T. Percy2013
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A treasure from the past, this book was originally published at the turn of the last century, during the heyday of cake-making, designed to be the standard work on cakes and confectionery. There are recipes for all kinds of of traditional Victorian cakes, biscuits and cookies, petits fours, shortbreads, pound and slab cakes, gingerbreads, marzipan and nougat, as well as a multitude of fillings, icings and frostings. Notes for the modern reader have been included to assist today's baker in adjusting and adapting recipes, with tips on unusual equipment and archaic ingredients.
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Edition:
[New] edition / with a foreword by Nicholas Lodge.
Imprint:
Wigston, Leicestershire : Lorenz Books, [2013]©2013
Collation:
248 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780754825760 (hbk)
Dewey class:
641.8653
Language:
English
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BRN:
34358