Category: cakes
The Unexpected Origins of the Common Marble Cake
October 22, 2018
Originating in early nineteenth-century Germany, the marble cake is a relative newcomer to the Jewish baking pantheon (at least compared to such venerable sweets as honey cake). But it turns out that marble cake as we know it is even newer than that: rather than the familiar chocolate and vanilla, the earliest variants consisted of […]
Medieval Honey Cake, So You Can Party Like It’s 4979
September 17, 2018
When I first got the idea to start a Jewish food history blog, I imagined I’d spend a lot of time attempting to reconstruct old recipes. That’s not exactly how things have gone down, but I figured for my first post of 5779 I’d go big with a bake from the way-back archives: medieval honey […]
Gluten-Free Buckwheat Flour Apple Cake for Rosh Hashanah
August 22, 2018
If you love kasha and are looking for the perfect gluten-free Rosh Hashanah cake, look no further: this buckwheat flour apple cake is just the thing. This cake is slightly adapted from Emiko Davies’s recipe on Food52, which in turn codifies a traditional recipe from the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige. Bordered by Switzerland […]