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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Thanksgiving
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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Throw a Legend of Sleepy Hollow Party; The Menu From The Book
Such heaped-up platters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives! There was the…
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6 Stops in Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow
If you find yourself rereading Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in the lead up to Halloween, a day…
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Sleepy Hollow Slapjacks
“…and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the odor of the beehive, and as he beheld them, soft…
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