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Menu du jour cake history : 20 Recipes


  • Recipe Dutch Apple Cake . . . History Will Remember This Cake!
    Dutch Apple Cake . . . History Will Remember This Cake!
    Apples have been on my mind lately. More specifically, apples in cakes. And if we're narrowing it down even further, the famous apple cake they sell at IKEA (the gargantuan Swedish furniture and home-goods store), in their cafeteria, has been on[...]
  • Recipe History corner ? Honey cake
    History corner ? Honey cake
    Welcome to my second voyage into History Corner following on from my first foray back in February. I have travelled to Jersey for work quite a lot over the past 6 years and have always wished for some[...]
  • Recipe The History of Wedding Cake
    The History of Wedding Cake
    The Strange History of the Wedding Cake The groom can't stay away from this wedding cake. Courtesy of Flickr user tamdotcom Ask any summer bride: her wedding cake, wreathed in hand-crafted sugar roses and sometimes worth more than[...]
  • Recipe History Corner ? St George Cake
    History Corner ? St George Cake
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  • Recipe History corner ? Golden crunch cake
    History corner ? Golden crunch cake
    This history corner is the ?youngest? book I?ve featured ? it?s ?A Spoonful of Sugar? issued by the British Sugar Bureau in 1973. Two very good things happened for the world of cake in 1973; firstly, this booklet was published[...]
  • Recipe History corner ? Buttermilk currant cake
    History corner ? Buttermilk currant cake
    This recipe comes courtesy of ?The Currant Recipe Book?, published in 1945 by the wonderfully named Central Currant Office (London). This makes me hope that there were regional Currant Offices scattered far and wide.[...]
  • Recipe The History of German Chocolate Cake
    The History of German Chocolate Cake
    I’d never really given the provenance of German Chocolate Cake much thought. In fact, about the only thought I’ve ever given to this cake was and is, “Yum.” I guess you could say I was sucked into the belief that it[...]
  • Recipe Tinker Cake - A recipe with a rich history.
    Tinker Cake - A recipe with a rich history.
    Tinker Cake is almost as simple as a "box cake", as my great-grandmother called them, or so I'm told. My mother doesn't remember her making this cake as often as some of the other treasured recipes I have but this is MY grandmother's cake. This is[...]
  • Recipe History corner ? Coronation Pineapple layer cake
    History corner ? Coronation Pineapple layer cake
    Now if I were to tell you that this pineapple layer cake comes from a booklet of recipes to celebrate the coronation you would probably think I was talking about Queen Elizabeth II?s coronation in 1953. And you?d be wrong![...]
  • Recipe The Best Apple Cake Ever! ( and a little American apple history)
    The Best Apple Cake Ever! ( and a little American apple history)
    On a cool, fall day last week, there was a heavenly aroma permeating my humble kitchen. The scent of apples and cinnamon hovered in the air for awhile even after the oven was turned off. I had just made my favorite Apple Cake, a recipe given[...]