Thursday, July 12, 2007

Tasty Cookie & Small Cake Recipes from Around the World

You see, I loved the attic better than any room in the old house in the South where I was raised. Evidently, my great-grandmother had the same fondness for it. She hoarded valuables in that attic. Her recipes, in a hand-written cookbook, which I found in the attic, began my hobby for collecting formulas for cookies and small cakes.

The interesting information she had written about the cakes was the inspiration for writing a book. The collector's demand for nothing but the authentic grew in me as the years passed. No formula went into my collection unless it was the best of its kind.

Gradually, I began looking to other lands to satisfy my desire for new and unusual recipes. I found them in out of the way places, in cottages, in manor houses, and in castles.

Now I am presenting them to you, with the hope that you may find as much pleasure in using them as I have found in collecting them and writing the book!

Here are some of the types of cookies and small cakes that you will find detailed recipes in my book “Around the World Making Cookies:”

· Buttermilk or Sour Milk

· Cheese Cakes

· Chess Cakes

· Chocolate

· Cocoanut

· Cookies That Will Keep

· Cream Cookies

· Sour Cream

· Fat (Without)

· Fruit Cookies

· Honey Cakes

· Ice Box Cookies

· Lard Cookies

· And many, many more!

And here’s a complete list of the countries that have recipes included in this collection:

  • America
  • Virginia region
  • New England region
  • Scotch Recipes from Colonial America
  • Dutch Recipes in New Your and Pennsylvania
  • Recipes from New Orleans
  • Modern American Recipes
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Ireland
  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Holland
  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Russia
  • Turkey
  • India
  • Japan
  • China
  • Mexico



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