The American Pastry Cook

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

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Baking Powder Batter Cakes

Mix up, just before the cakes are wanted as in the preceding receipt, but without yeast. Just before you begin to bake add two or three large teaspoonfuls of baking powder, take the large wire egg whisk and beat the batter thoroughly-a vast improvement.

Hotel cooks probably have different estimates of the public likes and dislikes from other and domestic peoples'. Their opportunities are different. The conditions are different. The restraints are removed from the people who eat, and they indulge their tastes without the hindrances of economic considerations. The cooks know no individuals, but as the tide comes and goes they learn what the tide of humanity likes to consume the most of For instance, one favorite article which is not found half often enough is graham cakes.

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