Victorian Cooking: Angel’s Food Isn’t Always Angel’s Food
Angel Food Cake recipes are all very much the same from their inception in the late 1870s until today…
Until they’re not.
Who knew?
Angel’s Food isn’t always Angel’s Food.
A Victorian Menu for New Year’s Day, 1892
This menu was posted in 1892 in a Pittsburgh, PA newspaper, but not the instructions– which those of us who are amused by history and cooking and the way things once were may well find fascinating. So this article is all about that menu… and how the home cook may have accomplished such a daunting task to celebrate the FIRST big holiday of the year.
