What Delectable Treat Will Leave You Not Only Wanting More, But Feeling Better Because You Ate It?
The craving for this sweet treat is as old as the hills and we’re only now discovering some of the added benefits from enjoying it. This amazingly decadent yet natural food has been coveted for centuries and has benefits that are almost too good to be true.
This delectable dessert food is craved by men and women alike, although it’s generally considered a woman’s best friend. What is it?
This delightful chocolate cookbook is a trip into the gustatory pleasures of old. Long before we were led to believe chocolate wasn’t so good for us.
“You can almost hear the sounds of wooden spoons tapping against steel pots, heavy oven doors closing, and iceboxes dripping as blocks of ice melt.” This was the time of milkmen in horse drawn delivery carriages riding through neighborhoods, and freshly baked pies cooling on windowsills in small towns all across the USA.
This historically preserved recipe book is from another time in our colorful past when Apollinaris water, Cottage Pudding and Crystallized Green Gages were commonplace products.
Loaded with period expressions like these, this colorful chocolate cookbook will take you back in time to when Apollinaris Water was a famous brand of bottled water and Cottage Pudding was a popular Fannie Farmer Recipe. But if you want to know more about Crystallized Green Gages or even what a gem pan is, you’ll just have to buy the book.
When this book was penned, Fannie Farmer was at the height of her fame, with her cookbook becoming a best seller a little more than 10 years earlier. The first edition of her cookbook sold an amazing 3,000 copies. An incredible feat in 1896!
Brought back to life from an era when you not only knew your neighbor but also grew up with them, you’ll hear from prominent women of the day such as Sarah Tyson Rorer, a pioneer of dietetics and one of the most famous cooking teachers of her time.
Period household celebrities like Mrs. Janet McKenzie Hill and Miss Parloa are about to be your ‘best friends’ in the kitchen. You’ll even be treated to recipes specially prepared by Miss Elizabeth Kevill Burr who, among other things, shares her family recipe for making three gallons of breakfast cocoa.
You’ll learn the difference between Cocoa Marble Cake and Chocolate Marble Cake… and it’s not just substituting chocolate for cocoa! Miss Burr’s recipe for cooking up Cocoa Sticks is also quite a treat.
I doubt any two ‘modern’ people using these recipes will turn out exactly the same great dessert dish. With instructions such as a “bake in a moderately hot oven”, your own tastes and preferences are sure to come through loud and clear so you can actually call these brilliant recipes your own without feeling like you’re fudging too much. Besides, I won’t tell.
“I brought Miss Elizabeth Kevill Burr’s sponge cake to a neighborhood party. Everyone thought it looked good but no one was digging in. Then I told a couple of people it was a special recipe from a famous cooking teacher in 1909 and the cake disappeared almost immediately. I didn’t even get a chance to try it!”
If you’re a true dessert lover, this recipe book is for you. There are recipes for puddings, fudges, cakes, pies, ice creams, sauces, soufflés, and maybe even a couple of dessert dishes you haven’t heard of. Love caramels? They’re here. Profiteroles? Éclairs? You’ll find them, too.
These tasty old-style after dinner concoctions are from a time when ‘home-made’ was the norm and ‘store bought’ was thought to be cheating. With this recipe book, your most challenging decision will be which recipe for marble cake you’ll make today.
“Our family loves to cook together. I feel like my kids learn a lot and they like to eat the creations. I was thrilled to find this sweet collection of recipes to share with my family. We all love chocolate! I find the format easier for my 8-year-old to read than a standard recipe and both my kids love the old-fashioned names like Cracked Cocoa and Cinderella Cakes….what is a charlotte anyway? Let’s cook and find out….we always get a pleasant surprise."
Miss M.E. Robinson even shares her personal recipe for making … you guessed it, hot chocolate.
If you can visualize yourself lying back in a lounge chair eating candies, then Genesee Bon-Bons on Page 34 is just what you need. Can you also imagine yourself preparing Choice Chocolate Pecan Pralines to die for? Page 64. And how about Chocolate Coated Parisian Sweets? Check out page 62.
"Heidi Walter’s cookbook conjures up another era when recipes were simpler and could be followed by home cooks with little experience. It is a refreshing change of pace in a day and age when some cookbooks have become so sophisticated that they can be daunting for people with little time or practical knowledge."
"As a very busy professional, I really don’t have a lot of extra time to cook. However, I am of Italian extraction, so naturally I love good food and I love cooking up great meals for my friends. These chocolate recipes make things easy for me. They’re short, have easy-to-find ingredients and they are time-tested: they’ve been around for 100 years! My favorites so far are Chocolate Peanut Clusters and Stuffed Dates, Chocolate Dipped."
I can still remember when Halloween meant my Mom’s popcorn balls, for me and for all the kids lucky enough to show up at our door. While we don’t give out home-made treats for Halloween any more, Mrs. Janet McKenzie Hill’s Chocolate Popcorn Balls are sure to be a hit at any private party or pot luck dinner these days.
Chocolate…
Chocolate For A Happy Heart
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