Old-Fashioned
Teacake Recipes Cookbook
A
Dish of TeaRecipes,
History and Etiquette from Conner Prairie Museum This unique teacake recipes cookbook contains more than just recipes. There is a wonderful history of tea in America, how a formal tea party was hosted in early American times, photos and descriptions of early tea sets, instructions on how to set your table for a tea party, explanations of the different types of tea, instructions on how to brew a perfect pot of tea, and tea etiquette.
The recipes in this book are meant to complement a tea party and contain authentic early American recipes including Tea Sandwiches, Scones and Biscuits, Tarts and Pastries, and Cakes. This book also includes a handy baking and cooking chart on the back page for weights, measurements, and substitutions.
Notes
are provided from Conner Prairie Museum and give a historical perspective on some of these early American celebrations. This book has a nice amount of history regarding early American celebrations for the history buff as well. To learn more, visit the Conner
Prairie Museum website.
Here
is just a sampling of recipes from this cookbook.
Tea
Sandwiches and Savories: Cheese
Sandwiches Welsh Rarebit
Cucumber Sandwiches Chicken
Salad
Scones,
Biscuits, and Teacakes:
Benton Teacakes
Lemon Cookies Gingerbread
Naples Biscuits (ladyfingers)
Tea Biscuits Scotch Scones
Scotch Cakes Tea Cakes
Tarts
and Pastries:
Fruit Turnovers
Peach Tarts Orange Tartlets
Lemon Cheesecakes Puff-Paste
Pastry
Cakes:
Berwick Sponge Cake
Chocolate Cake Lemon Cake
with Lemon Icing Martha
Scott's Orange Tea Cakes
Victoria Sandwich Republican
Cake Savoy Cake
Washington Pound Cake
Sweetmeats,
Curds, and Creams:
Lemon Curd Lemon Cream
Orange and Lemon Sweetmeats
- This
cookbook measures 8 1/2 " x 5 1/2 " and is a soft cover book. 32 pages.
- All
recipes in these cookbooks are in US equivalents
(cups, pounds, ounces).
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