Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, & Sweetmeats

This nineteenth-century cooking manual was America’s first baking cookbook and the first to organize recipes by listing ingredients first.  Eliza Leslie’s  Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats was the first distinctively baking cookbook published in America, as well as the first to share ingredients in a systematic list order at the beginning of each recipe. As Eliza recorded at the time of initial publication, “All the ingredients, with their proper quanti