Review: vintage cake recipes is a misnomer
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2013
This book claims to be a vintage cake recipe cookbook. However, I find very little that is not fairly current. Perhaps the use of certain ingredients have been changed or updated, but overall from my historical research, I do not find much in here that is truly vintage. For instance, pistachio pudding mix was not even in production until approximately mid 80s perhaps. Other ingredients were not available or if they were available they were not in use together in recipes which I have found. I had hoped to find some truly vintage recipes, so when I read this e-book I felt cheated.In that pound cake recipe from the depression? I believe you would find it extremely difficult to find a family who could afford to use four eggs and 1 1/2 cups sugar let alone an excess of flour and other ingredients to make a true poundcake even as a rare treat during that era. I have a large collection of depression cake recipes and this is truly no where near comparable to the very simple and creatively used ingredients due to lack of eggs and sugar, and even milk, from that depression era.After reading this book, I'm not going to bother reading the cookie recipe book. If this is her standard, I feel it would only be more of the same, which is not true vintage, nor historically accurate.