Negative Space: ovens
- 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.
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- This 160-Year-Old Victorian Pudding Surprised Me | Pudding with Rough Puff Pastry
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“Today we’re diving deep into a forgotten Victorian dessert: Amber Pudding, straight out of Williamson’s Cookery, 6th edition, 1864, published in Edinburgh, Scotland.”
- The American Kitchen Range, from its Origins through the Civil War
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“When did what became the dominant cooking stove type in late 19th and 20th century America first become common? And how did it develop and attain its mature form?”
- Your Stove is Broken!
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“It feels like it must have been long ago that we were building houses around the need for a cellar to keep our food cold, or ensuring proper ventilation for the wood-burning stoves when we needed to cook food. Yet, neither the home refrigerator nor the temperature-controlled oven began making their way into American homes until the beginning of the 20th century! ”
- 1846: When Baking Changed Forever
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“From 1700 to 1850 food changes in a tremendous way. The kind of cooking, the techniques, and even the ingredients. You see these changes showing up in baking and specifically in the pinnacle of the baking art and that is cakes.”
