The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles (Mid Century Cookbook, Gift for Bakers, Americana Recipe Book)

by Jessie Sheehan, Alice Gao (Photographer)

Overview

This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and—surprise! —a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe and how they were tweaked into deliciousness. For home bakers, collectors of vintage cookbooks or kitchenware—really, anyone who loves beautiful, quirky gifts—this is a gem.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452163871
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	05/15/2018
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	380,855
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jessie Sheehan is the coauthor of Icebox Cakes (Chronicle Books) and has contributed to many other cookbooks. She writes, bakes, and develops recipes for sweets in Red Hook, Brooklyn, not far from her beloved Baked, the bakery where she got her start.

Alice Gao is a New York City–based photographer.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

No 1 Sweet & Savory Morning Treats

Molasses Doughnuts with Chocolate-Ginger Glaze 15

Chai Banana Fritters 18

Butterscotch Pecan Curls 20

Cinnamon-Raisin Flake-Apart Bread 25

Swedish Tea Rolls 28

Vanilla Yogurt Coffee Cake 30

Cacio e Pepe Popovers 33

"Everything" Buttermilk Biscuits 36

No 2 Cookies

Cornflake Macaroons with Chocolate Drizzle 41

Butterscotch-Potato Chip Balls 43

Sour Cream Jumbles 46

Sand Tarts 48

Deep-Fried Cardamom Cookies 51

Peanut Butter Fingers with Salty Milk Chocolate Glaze 53

Chocolate-Molasses Crinkles 56

Lemon-Pepper Shortbread 58

Black-Bottom Banana Dream Bars 61

Fig Pincushions 63

No 3 Pipes

Butterscotch Pie with Rum-Black Pepper Whipped Cream 68

Lemon Chiffon Pie with Coconut Whipped Cream 71

Peanut Butter Custard Pie with Marshmallow Whipped Cream 74

Mexican Hot Chocolate Bavarian Pie 77

Latticed Blackberry-Lime Pie 81

Pumpkin-Chocolate Tart with Cinnamon Whipped Cream 83

Cherry-Almond Slab Pie with Marzipan Crumble 86

Strawberry-Basil Turnovers 89

Peach-Graham Cracker Hazelnut Crisp 92

No 4 Cakes

Devil's Food Sheet Cake with Sea Foam Frosting 97

Blueberry Angel Food Dream 99

Chocolate-Hazelnut Meringue Cradle Cake 102

Chocolate-Peppermint Stick Roll 104

Silver Cake with Pink Frosting 107

Coconut Blitz Torte 110

Caramel-Filled Banana Cupcakes with Penuche Frosting 114

Raspberry-Marshmallow Upside-Down Cake 118

"S'more" Graham Cracker Cake 120

Strawberry Shortcake 122

Cottage Pudding with Vanilla Sauce 124

No 5 Refrigerator Desserts

Strawberry-Lemon Charlotte Russe with Thyme Ladyfingers 128

Coconut-Chocolate Icebox Cake with Toasted Almonds 131

Vanilla-Rhubarb Icebox Cake 134

Milk Chocolate Malted Pudding 136

Maple Parfait with Pecan Sandie Crumble 139

Salty Caramel Crunch Sundaes with Caramelized Cornflakes 142

Baked Alaska Sandwich 145

Ice Cream Cake 149

No 6 Confections

Hot Fudge Sauce 154

Salt-and-Pepper Caramels 155

Curried Candied Cashews 157

Cinnamon Red Hots Popcorn 158

Peanut Butter-Marshmallow Kix Trees 159

Honey-Roasted Peanut Brittle 162

Chocolate-Marshmallow-Walnut Fudge with Sea Salt 165

Cream Puffs with Pistachio Pastry Cream 166

Basic Techniques 168

Acknowledgments 170

Booklet Credits 171

Index 172

Editorial Reviews

"The hard-won result of collection, testing, and tweaking hundreds of heirloom recipes gathered from vintage baking booklets, Jessie Sheehan's The Vintage Baker is a sweet blend of cheeky nostalgia and modern-day baking innovation. Expect to find revamps of classic standards like silky Bavarian Pie with a Mexican Hot Chocolate twist, rich Devil's Food Cake with espresso undertones, and a glossy chocolate- and ginger-glazed update of Molasses Doughnuts."
-Bake From Scratch Magazine

"The hard-won result of collection, testing, and tweaking hundreds of heirloom recipes gathered from vintage baking booklets, Jessie Sheehan's The Vintage Baker is a sweet blend of cheeky nostalgia and modern-day baking innovation. Expect to find revamps of classic standards like silky Bavarian Pie with a Mexican Hot Chocolate twist, rich Devil's Food Cake with espresso undertones, and a glossy chocolate- and ginger-glazed update of Molasses Doughnuts."
-Bake From Scratch Magazine

A Washington Post Best cookbook of 2018!

A Washington Post Best cookbook of 2018!

"When I came across The Vintage Baker, I knew it was for me. Just reading it puts me in a very happy place." - Nigella Lawson

"When I came across The Vintage Baker, I knew it was for me. Just reading it puts me in a very happy place." - Nigella Lawson

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