An old scrapbook shows faded pictures of my dad’s family back in Bell County, Kentucky. The “hollers.” They were well enough educated. Grandmother Gertrude (Bailey) Howard, and her eldest son Carl, ...

When Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible was first published in 1988, it took the baking world by storm. It was the first cake book to list ingredients by weight instead of volume and also introduced ...

Spoons and bowls and baking pans and... a Bible? Most modern bakers probably don't associate the Good Book with pulling together a batch of their favorite treats, but during the late 1800s, some ...

Rose Levy Beranbaum may be a lauded cake-baking authority seen on PBS and The Today Show, but her first attempt at baking, a velvet spice cake from "The Joy of Cooking," was a resounding ...

This recipe, which features in the Eynsham Cookbook, was copied from an old family Bible. Jennifer Harland, an Eynsham resident known for her superb home-made cakes and biscuits, tested the recipe and ...