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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- 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?”
- 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.”
- How to Build an Earthen Oven
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“Wood-fired earthen ovens are easily documented all the way back the ancient Romans. Likewise, they are easily documented in archaeological evidence and first-hand accounts from the 18th Century.”
