Before we jump into making the pies from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, you’ll need this pie crust recipe. This…
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Short Cakes | Sleepy Hollow
The shortcakes mentioned in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow led to a search for an authentic recipe from the late…
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Sweet Cakes | Sleepy Hollow
As you start baking recipes from Colonial America, you’ll start to notice that sugar was used, but in the majority…
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Honey Cakes & Ginger Cakes | Sleepy Hollow
In American Cookery, published in 1796, we start to see the use of pearlash. Pearlash is potassium carbonate, an alkaline from…
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Cruller recipe | Sleepy Hollow
There were two designs for the ‘crumbling cruller’ that we came across in The Sensible Cook, but regardless of which…
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Oly Koek and Doughty Doughnut recipes | Sleepy Hollow
The olykoek (also spelt olicook and olykoecks) is the grandpa of the doughnut, will numerous variations made available in cookbooks….
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