This recipe comes from Sarah Tyson Rorer’s first cookbook, the Philadelphia Cook Book, published a few years after she opened the Philadelphia Cooking School in 1883.
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Tag: 1880s
Coffee Cakes
This recipe comes from The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, a fundraising cookbook first sold at the 1886 Woman Suffrage Festival and Bazaar in Boston to raise money for the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association.
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Tennis Cake
After playing a game of tennis in a corset and heavy skirts, who wouldn’t want to eat cake?
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History in the Making 