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Recipe: Pound Cake (1796)

Posted by Eric Colleary on August 1, 2012

Pound cake is one of those recipes that have changed so much over the years that it often bares only a feint resemblance today to what it actually was. Growing [...]

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Recipe: Abraham Lincoln and his Gingerbread Men (1847)

Posted by Eric Colleary on January 5, 2013

Abraham Lincoln rarely spoke on matters relating to food. But during the first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln shared a story about gingerbread men that stayed with him well into [...]