$ 6.99
Discover more than 60 vintage afternoon-tea cake recipes (& over 120 variations)
Updated with metric weights, oven temperatures, and clear guidance for today’s kitchen.
Includes cakes, sponges, gingerbreads, tea-table fancies, icings, and fillings.
Instant PDF download. No physical item will be shipped.
Description
Over 60 vintage recipes (more than 120 with variations) from Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer, gently annotated for the modern baker with metric weights, oven temperatures and clear methods. Layer cakes and sponges, fruit cakes and gingerbreads, little fancies, and a full chapter of icings and fillings to finish them.
Put the kettle on.
There was a time when a woman was judged by her sponge, when a good plain cake, set out on a Tuesday afternoon, said more about a household than any calling card. High Society Cakes brings that world back to your kitchen.
Drawn from the treasured recipes of Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer, America’s most trusted cooking teacher a century ago, this is a complete collection of classic afternoon-tea baking: layer cakes and sponges, fruit cakes and gingerbreads, little tea-table fancies, and the icings and fillings that finish them.
Every recipe is kept in Mrs. Rorer’s own graceful words, then gently annotated for the modern baker: metric weights beside her cupfuls, oven temperatures beside her “moderately quick oven,” a cook’s note wherever a hundred years has changed the kitchen, and two or three variations to make each cake your own.
Inside you will find:
- Over 60 vintage cake, sponge, fruit-cake and small-cake recipes (more than 120 with variations)
- A full chapter of classic icings, fillings and frostings
- Mrs. Rorer’s clever “one batter, many cakes” method
- Grand cakes for weddings, Christmas and Twelfth Night
- Modern measures, oven temperatures and clear instructions throughout
- A hostess’s guide to planning a proper afternoon tea
Whether you bake for the pleasure of it or to set a beautiful table, this is a keepsake collection to return to season after season.
What you’ll receive: the complete book as an instant-download PDF, ready to read on your computer, tablet or phone and to print at home. Nothing is shipped. Your download link appears the moment your order is complete, and the file is yours to keep and return to whenever you like.
Part of the High Society series of annotated vintage tea-table classics, alongside High Society Sandwiches and High Society Scones.
