Baking yesteryear : the best recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
(Book)

Includes index.

"A decade-by-decade collection of wild, wacky, and wonderful recipes from the 20th century"--Back cover.

Travel back on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Hollis shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. From Chocolate potato cake to Avocado pie, he has collected these recipes from antique cookbooks from the 1900s to the 1980s. Some are spectacular failures-- and others are disastrously strange. Others are delightful blasts from the past that you just may end up adding to your permanent collection. -- adapted from inside front cover, and perusal of book