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 of recipes it was used…
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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 wood ash. Today we use…
Cruller recipe | Sleepy Hollow
There were two designs for the ‘crumbling cruller’ that we came across in The Sensible Cook, but regardless of which one you choose to make,…
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. In simple terms, it is…
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 doughty doughnut, the tenderer oly…