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Title: |
The Twelve Cakes of Christmas |
| Sub-title: |
An evolutionary history, with recipes |
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| By (author): |
Helen Leach, Mary Brown |
| ISBN10-13: |
1877578193 : 9781877578199 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w & colour illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
254x177x15mm |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Weight: |
.620 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press (NZ) - January 2011 |
| List Price: |
17.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Christianity : Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft : Christmas |
| Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December for at least two thousand years. Using archaeological evidence and ancient books, the authors define the key ingredients of the cakes that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night, at the end of the Christmas season. From 17th century English cookbooks, they identify recipes that would have been made as twelfth cakes, full of expensive ingredients like raisins, almonds, sweet wine and candied peel, but made like fruit-breads, with yeast. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction; In Search of the 17th Century Twelfth Cake -- Sir Kenelm Digby's Recipe; 18th Century Twelfth Cakes - Hannah Glasse's Recipe; From Twelfth Cake to Christmas Cake - Isabella Beeton's Recipe; Christmas Cakes in the 20th Century: Facts & Figures; Christmas Cakes from the Last Hundred Years -- Nine Historic Cake Recipes with Photographs; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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