Description
This recipe book contains approximately 25 recipes, mostly for cakes and tea cakes. Included are Republican Cake, Pound Cake, Rusks, Cookies, fried cakes, yeast-raised cakes baked in small pans, and Gingerbread. A number of the cake recipes call for emptins, the yeasty reside remaining at the bottom of brewery barrels, and pearl ash, the earliest American form of baking soda. The book also contains instructions for tansey beer and ginger brew. To view a couple of pages from the book, click
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The author of this book, Clemy Deyo, is indirectly connected to Maria Terwilliger Deyo, who is infamous on Huguenot Street. After the death of her first husband, Zachariah Hoffman, Maria become the second wife of Josiah Deyo. In 1801, Maria murdered her two children from her marriage to Zachariah, as well as an infant child from her marriage to Josiah Deyo, and then also killed herself. Subsequently, Josiah Deyo married a third wife, Hannah Merrit, who was the mother of Clemy Deyo. Oddly, Clemy Deyo wrote her recipes in a book originally used by Zachariah Hoffman, Maria's first husband, to record financial transactions.
