Seventy-Five Recipes For Pastry, Cakes And Sweetmeats : Tansen Publisher : 9781805475897 : 1805475894 : 26 Feb 2024 : From the 1800's comes this classic little cookbook with many delectable, traditional American desserts for holidays and everyday! The following Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, are original, and have been used by the author and many of her friends with uniform success. They are drawn up in a style so plain and minute, as to be perfectly intelligible to servants, and persons of the most moderate capacity. All the ingredients, with their proper quantities, are enumerated in a list at the head of each receipt, a plan which will greatly facilitate the business of procuring and preparing the requisite articles. There is frequently much difficulty in following directions in English and French Cookery Books, not only from their want of explicitness, but from the difference in the fuel, fire-places, and cooking utensils, generally used in Europe and America; an