Chocolate Chip Cookies!

@gogojosephw loves to cook, so sometimes I wake up to scenes like this — a batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies.
I’ll have to limit myself to one a day — which will be difficult — but a tasty treat while stuck isolating.
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Historical Cooking Books – 58 in a series – Perfection in baking (1900) by Emil Braun


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PREFACE.
IN no other land has the baking and consumption of bake-stuffs grown to such an extent as it has within the past few years in this country. Even in the household of the most humble workman, as in the mansion of the rich and prosperous merchant, the American cook and housewife is generally more praised and esteemed for her good bread, pastry and desserts, than for meat cooking. In looking over the numerous cook books that are now placed so freely before the public, the inexperienced can find no way of learning how or why the recipes read as they do. Before any success in baking can be expected, the cook, baker or housewife must be educated to all the particulars of the materials they are about to use.
It is the main object of this work to show in plain language all who are interested how to become successful in baking; the theories of how to put together and how to change recipes, when the same grades or brands of materials are not on hand. Judgment and common sense must be displayed to insure success. Did you ever hear a woman say, “I had good luck to-day with my cakes,” but alas, the next time, “Oh, I had such bad luck with my baking”? There it is; one day good luck, the next time ashamed to show the result of her labor, and all the good materials wasted. It is the lack of theoretical knowledge about baking that brings the bad luck, and many a professional baker is not able to explain the real cause of the mishap. The theories herein laid out plainly before the reader are all the result of careful, practical experiments, and are based upon accomplished facts. Being confident of the success of my efforts in demonstrating some new and practical points to all interested in baking, and wishing to prepare delicious desserts, I shall herewith give my recipes in several parts, each part treating upon a different branch in the art of baking.
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- Publication date 1900
- Topics Baking, Cookery, cbk
- Publisher New York, J. S. Ogilvie publishing company
- Collection library_of_congress; americana
- Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation
- Contributor The Library of Congress
- Language English
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What might you find in these old cookbooks? What special recipes have been handed down to you? Share in the Comments!Historical Cooking Books – 52 in a series – The American pastry baker, or, General instructor in the baking of all kinds pastries, cakes & custards (1872) by Frederick Otto


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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
Induced by the growth of technical literature and the progress made in arts and trades as well as by special encour agement of several bakers^ the Editor has made it his business, to issue this little book and thereby to assist with some valuable hints Master-bakers and their apprentices, giving them some use ful informations in their trade.
The Editor has made it a point, to be as short as possible without loss to clear ness and comprehensiveness, in order to make his subject easy understood and digested. His name is sufficient guaran tee for the correctness of his receipts, he being generally known as a theoretically thoroughly versed and practically work ing baker since more than fifteen years, and having them used in his own busi ness.
As this is the only work treating the manufacture of Pastry, which has made its appearance in print in America, it is to be hoped, that the same will meet with a favorable reception.
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Publication Date: 1872
Topics: Pastry, cbk
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Sounds Tasty! Might be a nice one for the Coronavirus Kitchen Series— Douglas
Now here’s a wholesome cake you can feel equally happy about for dessert as you can for breakfast. A fluffy sheet of banana cake is the perfect partner to a mix of crunchy, earthy nuts and seeds. To make this wholesome cake a bit more sweet, we’re finishing it off with a drizzle of bittersweet chocolate.
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Traditional Peanut Butter Cookies

One more batch to bake for this year’s Christmas Cookie Party. Then it’s a full focus on organizing and clean up.
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M&M Cookies

Annual cookie party this weekend. I think this is the 10th variety I have made so far. Still have a couple more to go.
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My #Kitchenaid Workhorse

This has been getting a lot of use this week as I prepare for my annual Christmas cookie party. I’m up to about 50 dozen cookies at this point with about another 20 dozen to go. This mixer makes everything easier and faster — an important point when you are making so much in a short time.
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