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 e en 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.”
