The American Pastry Cook

Jessup Whitehead's American Pastry Cook — the hotel pastry trade's own manual, in hundreds of numbered recipes.

About the Book

1894Published
Jessup WhiteheadAuthor
803Recipes

Jessup Whitehead wrote for the hotel trade, and The American Pastry Cook (c.1894) is his professional course: hundreds of numbered recipes, angel food to ornamental sugar work, in the proportions a pastry department actually used. Built from professionally keyed text.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1894 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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