Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats

Eliza Leslie was one of the most prolific and successful 19th century cookery authors. This was the first of her many popular and influential cookbooks. First published in 1828, Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats had dozens of printings. The recipes are well written for their time and most contain measurements. You’ll love to try the Preserved Pine-Apple, Gooseberry Jelly, Jumbles, Gingerbread Nuts, Butter Biscuits, Trifle, Cocoa-nut Pudding, Curds and Whey, Almond Cake – or any of the other tempting dishes to be found in this volume. PB, 100 pp.