I Tried Baking Gingerbread Recipes from 1887: Cozy Historical Baking Vlog

Let's dive into The White House Cookbook, first published in 1887 by F.L Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. This book boasts more than 500 recipes, and they are some of the best historical bakes that I have tried. I made the Soft Gingerbread Cake and Hard Gingerbread from the "Cakes" chapter. Both recipes turned out delicious! The cake is soft and moist with the help of beaten egg whites, and the hard gingerbread is very similar to our modern gingerbread cookies.
You will love both of these recipes for their cozy comfort and historical charm! You can find the recipes on my blog below to either save or print out at home.
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RECIPES: underatinroof.com/blog/ginger...
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_____Contents of Video _____
00:00 Intro
00:13 Welcome & Foraging
02:00 Decorating the Kitchen for Christmas
05:38 Making Tea
06:24 The White House Cookbook
07:30 The Recipes
08:08 Soft Ginger Cake
10:05 Hard Gingerbread
11:50 The Results
13:00 Outro

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[@underatinroof]

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[@JanTrewhitt]

Another video I love!! I am a cat person and love all your cats!! My Mom used to make gingerbread, which I love, she made a lemon sauce to put over it-----so tasty!!

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Biscuits are cookies in England so maybe that's where the name came from and our biscuits are Scones in the England. love this video

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[@universalqueenfern]

I love gingerbread. Thank you for this. Now I have to go make some. 😺

[@underatinroof]

I hope you enjoy your baking time! 🥰

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Great recipe! Can we use almond flour instead 😊?

[@TheMennomilist]

It was cute when the cats were chasing you in a way. There is something lovely about seeing jars stacked and not labeled. This was my first time seeing what molasses looks like. The British do call cookies "biscuits" so perhaps the author of this recipe was of British origin?

[@underatinroof]

Thank you! 🥰 She was born in Michigan so I don’t believe so, but I’m not sure when Americans began coining the term cookie for biscuit.

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[@amyeastin5263]

Love this. Love gingerbread.

[@underatinroof]

Thank you 🥰

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We call cookies biscuits in uk.We eat theses for 5 th November.Bonfire night.

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I realize ive never made gingerbread before! This is my sign i need to-yum! I love your lovely apron, may i ask where you got it? Mine are all so work out id love a pretty new one.

[@underatinroof]

Thank you so much! 🥰 The apron is from Little Women Atelier. It’s the Meg apron in beige.

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[@underatinroof]

Thank you! Yes, I’ve always gotten comments on my thumbs growing up, generally not very nice ones! 😅

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My 1st video of yours. I caught the title "gingerbread" and wanted to see the recipe. Well 8 minutes into the video you finally started. 😢 . I really didn't like that. If my second video is like that, I probably won't be watching your videos. Sorry. I could have watched another whole video in that time.

[@underatinroof]

Sorry I’m not your style! ❤️