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snow cream

In honor of the humongous snow storm engulfing an area reaching from Indiana to the Carolinas to D.C. and New York, I thought I’d offer a receipt for Snow Cream. Of course, all it has in common with the lovely white stuff that has only just now (midnight) begun to fall at my place is [...]

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The title page of the first edition (1828) of Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, notes that it was written “By a Lady of Philadelphia.” Future editions confirmed that this “Lady” was one Eliza Leslie, who was, indeed, born, and lived most of her life, in that city. What’s interesting, though, is that many, [...]

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