The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Butterscotch Pecan Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles (Mid Century Cookbook, Gift for Bakers, Ameri (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781452163871)

This keepsake cookbook features fetching retro patterns and illustrations, luscious photography, an embossed foil cover, and--surprise --a tiny, vintage-style, booklet inside. Blue-ribbon recipes inspired by baking pamphlets from the 1920s to the 1960s are rendered with irresistible charm for modern tastes in this sweet package. Here are more than 50 cookies, pies, cakes, bars, and more, plus informative headnotes detailing the origins of each recipe and how they were tweaked into deliciousness. For home bakers, collectors of vintage cookbooks or kitchenware--really, anyone who loves beautiful, quirky gifts--this is a gem.

Author: Jessie Sheehan
ISBN-10: 1452163871
ISBN-13: 9781452163871
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2018
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.80d

About the Author
Jessie Sheehan is the coauthor of Icebox Cakes (Chronicle Books) and has contributed to many other cookbooks. She writes, bakes, and develops recipes for sweets in Red Hook, Brooklyn, not far from her beloved Baked, the bakery where she got her start.

Alice Gao is a New York City-based photographer.