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A delicious tour of America’s favorite treats, cookies, and candies from the beloved author of the bestselling Cake Mix Doctor series and American Cake
IACP AWARD FINALIST • “Every recipe comes with a story as delicious as the small bite it describes. And best of all, every small bite begs to be baked.”—Dorie Greenspan, James Beard Award–winning author of Dorie’s Cookies
Each of America’s little bites—cookies, candies, wafers, brittles—tells a big story, and each speaks volumes about what was going on in America when the recipes were created. In American Cookie, the New York Times bestselling author and Cake Mix Doctor Anne Byrn takes us on a journey through America’s baking history. And just like she did in American Cake, she provides an incredibly detailed historical background alongside each recipe. Because the little bites we love are more than just baked goods—they’re representations of different times in our history.
Early colonists brought sugar cookies, Italian fig cookies, African benne wafers, and German gingerbread cookies. Each of the 100 recipes, from Katharine Hepburn Brownies and Democratic Tea Cakes to saltwater taffy and peanut brittle, comes with a lesson that’s both informative and enchanting.
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BLACK AND WHITE COOKIES
Jewish immigrants in New York have given us the beloved cheesecake and the black and white cookies. According to Jewish foodways expert Joan Nathan, the first black and whites were baked at Ratchets Bakery in Brooklyn at the turn of the 20th century. But what many people don’t know is that the cookies baked in this deli and later in Glaser’s Bake Shop in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan had German roots. In Germany that cookie is called an Amerikaner and is a lemonglazed round cake. But in New York, it has always been glazed with a half circle of white confectioners’ glaze next to a half circle of dark chocolate glaze. And that cookie says Jewish culture, pure and simple. It is wrapped and found on deli counters nationwide. In the following recipe, cake flour yields a cookie that is tender and soft, lightweight. And you can also choose to forgo the black and white glaze and just add a little lemon zest to the glaze and turn these into German Amerikaners.
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aste your way through America with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings 175 decadent and quick modern cake recipes with from-scratch flavor from the bestselling author of The Cake Mix Doctor.
Publisher : Rodale Books
Publication date : August 21, 2018
Language : English
Print length : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1623365457
ISBN-13 : 978-1623365455
Item Weight : 2.05 pounds
Dimensions : 7.57 x 1.08 x 9.13 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #675,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #241 in Cookie Baking (Books) #394 in Gastronomy History (Books) #603 in Christmas Cooking
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