Jessie Sheehan

I borrowed this through Prime Reading in my Kindle app.

I like the concept of this book: modernizing old recipes, many a century in age, to make them more approachable for modern cooks. However, this involved more than just figuring out oven temperatures beyond hot/very hot and switching out ingredients like lard for butter. It also updates ingredients with things like extra doses pepper, curry, and other other trendy ingredients. This is where the book lost me. None of her new twists resonated with me--I didn't find a single new recipe I wanted to try. I think I would have liked more straightforward technique updates to the original recipes much more. In the ebook, there were also a lot of recipes without any photographs.

This would be a perfectly fine cookbook for other bakers, but it just wasn't for me.… (mehr)

'The Vintage Baker' is a sweetly designed collection of recipes, inspired by author Jessie Sheehan's personal collection of vintage cookbooks and recipe cards. "Inspired by" is the operative phrase here: all recipes in this book have been updated with modern techniques and ingredients, to suit modern tastes, (though a bonus pamphlet does include the original versions of some of the featured recipes, for those who would like a true taste of the past). What makes this book truly shine, however, is Alice Gao's photography, which perfectly captures the look and feel of a cookbook from the 1950s/60s.… (mehr)