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I love his videos and knew I wanted to look through this book to see what abominations and other things might be within the pages. I made a 1920s blackberry jam cake, and the valentine‘s cream pie. The cake was like a banana bread, and the pie wasn‘t what I was expecting. Reading each recipe introduction is just as funny as watching his videos. Some cookbooks are for entertainment, historical reference. You don‘t have to use them all! 🍒🍰🍪

I wanted to try this 1920s blackberry jam cake that! I used less sugar (only 1/3 cup), my mom‘s blackberry jelly, and Greek yogurt instead of the sour cream.

It smells good and is similar to banana bread, but less sweet. The batter was dense. I considered doing a blackberry frosting but decided not to as I was short on time, tired, and didn‘t have everything. I‘m glad I didn‘t because I feel like it would be better suited on something else.

I don‘t tend to buy cookbooks, but I‘ve collected a few and been given several as gifts (the tagged from @jewright for Christmas). I always love paging through them but admit I‘m not great at actually making recipes from a lot of them. Although I have favorites I use, I tend to go to Pinterest for new recipes. So, seeing all the #MtCookbook posts, I decided to reorganize my cookbook cabinet and choose some recipes to try, maybe monthly.

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We did our Christmas early, since my youngest has to work tomorrow. Here‘s most of my haul (which really is that I buy these for myself and my kids wrap them. 🤣🤣 cut off in the pic are the tagged book and The Scene Book by Sandra Scofield). Just big Christmas with extended family tomorrow but that‘s more about eating and being together than gifts. There will be some, but mostly we all just like to hang out together.

I LOVED THIS so much because Hollis is hysterical 😂😂😂. Even enjoyed his short “Worst of the Worst” section which included this revolting little recipe for Pickle Cheesecake 🤢

I picked up the delightful B. Dylan Hollis' recipe book the week it came out, and then forgot about it. I was honestly never planning on making anything from it, I just wanted to read the blurbs, on account of Hollis being hilarious. And it was; the blurbs are just as innuendo-filled and sarcastic as his videos, great investment. I also love that the last section is horrible things that should never be made.

It‘s been a minute since I‘ve done a recipe taste test on the blog and I don‘t know why. They‘re some of my favorite posts to do. And I knew when I got a copy of Baking Yesteryear I needed to do one.

So I spend the day making pecan dainties. They‘re a three ingredient cookie and are super easy to make. I‘ll definitely be making them again.

https://wildwoodreads.com/2023/08/30/baking-yesteryear-recipe-taste-test/

We're having lots of fun trying out the recipes in this book. We're planning on making peanut butter bread tomorrow

I just added this cookbook to the library's collection. I love this guy on TikTok. He bakes recipes from antique cookbooks. Tomato soup cake anyone? Most of recipes are ones that he enjoyed, but he includes 5 recipes that he absolutely did not, like pickle cheesecake.