Negative Space: baking
- Baker’s Dozen Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
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The Baker’s Dozen coconut oatmeal cookies, compared to a very similar recipe from the Fruitport, Michigan bicentennial cookbook.
- Club recipe archive
- Every Sunday, the Padgett Sunday Supper Club features one special recipe. These are the recipes that have been featured on past Sundays.
- The cookie dough manifesto and the harridans of safety
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Life first, safety third: a growing paranoia in the kitchen mirrors the paranoia permeating the modern world.
- El Molino Best: Whole grains in 1953
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El Molino Mills of Alhambra, California, published a fascinating whole grain cookbook in 1953.
- Hot ovens: Bakers were once the slaves of time
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We have chained time in our kitchens. Our refrigerators stop time from destroying food, and our ovens lash it to the oars for baking. And we have forgotten that it was ever any other way.
- Padgett Sunday Supper Club
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Dedicated to the preservation of vintage recipes.
- Quiet ovens and Australian rice shortbread
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What is a quiet oven? How do we translate old recipes? Executive summary: 325°; very carefully. Plus, two Australian recipes for rice shortbread as a test of my theory.
- Rumford Recipes Sliding Cookbooks
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One of the most interesting experiments in early twentieth century promotional baking pamphlets is this pair of sliding recipe cards from Rumford.
- Stoy Soy Flour: Miracle Protein for World War II
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To replace protein lost by rationing, add the concentrated protein of Stoy’s soy flour to your baked goods and other dishes!
- Three from the Baker’s Dozen
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Three recipes from a Baker’s Coconut pamphlet once included in McCall’s magazine: coconut squares, chocolate cheesecake, and broiled coconut topping.
