Anyone Can Bake: 1929 Royal Baking Powder Cookbook

[rachelmanija]

After helping a neighbor clean out his apartment for a move and bringing him homebaked bread as a consolation, he gave me a cookbook that he'd unearthed from God knows where. It's a complete delight, and unlike many old cookbooks which are only good for windows into the things people used to eat that we now find unutterably gross, or for enjoyable reading of recipes way too complex or unusual to actually make, this one's recipes look both good and extremely simple.

I am going to try some. I assume baking powder is basically the same now as in 1929, i.e., I can just do the recipes as written?

Cut for a whole lot of photos.













Anyone Can Bake

Comments

[tibicina]

Oh, right, I'd forgotten about that. (I don't have that many of the branded old cookbooks, so mine are more inclined to be generic stuff. ) I think the main issue I've had with Knox vs. Jello is that the packets are for making different amounts between the two companies so you have to be really careful about figuring out your ratios to get the same results. (I was experimenting with unusual jello flavors like using various teas as the liquid, mostly I've reverted to doing things like just making the peach jello with ginger peach tea as the hot liquid.)

But yeah, Lemon could work well for some of them.