Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
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A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century
Gentles and ladymen, are you sick and tired of making the same baking recipes again and again? Then look no further than this baking blast from the past, as B. Dylan Hollis highlights the most unique tasty treats of yesteryear.
Travel back in time on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Dylan shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. With a big pinch of fun and a full cup of humor, you'll be baking everything from chocolate potato cake from the 1910s to avocado bread from the 1970s.
Having baked thousands of retro recipes from all kinds of antique cookbooks, Dylan's selected the best of the best for this bakebook, sharing the shining stars from each decade. And since not every recipe Dylan bakes on his wildly popular social media channels turn out delicious, we've thrown in a few of the most disastrously strange recipes for you to try if you want to prank your friends, or if you're simply a glutton for punishment.
A few of Dylan's favorites that are going to have you licking your lips and begging for more include:
- 1909 cornflake macaroons
- 1918 anzac biscuits
- Great Depression peanut butter bread
- 1940s chocolate sauerkraut cake
- 1970s potato chip cookies