I love this little cookbook because of all the useful tips and facts inside. The articles range from how to make the perfect custard and how to choose a refrigerator (from 1930), and the recipes are simple and old fashioned, some dating back to the 1800's.
The section on cakes gives a foundation yellow cake recipe and then gives 8 ways to take that recipe and make different cake. It also gives some great tips and facts in each section that girls like me might never have known otherwise.
Things like....
From the cake section:
Dredging nuts or fruit in part of the required flour will keep them from going to the bottom of the batter.
When adding dry ingredients alternately with the liquid, begin and end with the dry ingredients in order to keep the fat from separating from the sugar and egg.
Egg whites beat up to better advantage, both as to time and volume, when the eggs are at room temperature.
This is a neat resource to have in the kitchen, and you can get a used copy from Amazon for less than it costs to ship. Check it out.
Grandma's Farm Country Cookbook
Thanks for the tip, Rach. We collect cookbooks (for use), and since we are gradually going more home-grown/natural/from scratch/crazy/whatever you want to call it, this cookbook sounds like a great one for the collection!
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