Abstract:
Americans have enjoyed cakes for hundreds of years. Back in colonial
days, the old “recipes” called for measurements like “a lump of
butter the size of a walnut” or “a dessert spoon full of sugar.” Ingredients were beaten for hours and housewives guessed at the oven
temperatures in their wood stoves. Today, modern appliances and
standardized recipes have taken away much of the labor and trial-and-
error of cake baking.
