Tuesday, October 7, 2025

The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook

I simply completed watching the sequence The Gilded Age and actually loved it. Can’t look ahead to the subsequent season! Set in New York and Newport, RI, it paperwork the lives of the outdated and newly wealthy, with their downtown mansions and quite a few seashore cottages, dwelling in splendor within the late nineteenth century. After all, the set manufacturing is spectacular in addition to the costumes featured. It’s a feast for eyes in each method. I used to be contacted from a writer a few new e-book based mostly on The Gilded Age present and it’s a Christmas cookbook, which piqued my curiosity, so I obtained a replica to peruse and it’s a stunning e-book that I needed to share with you. In case you love that point interval, in addition to nostalgic Christmas concepts and recipes, you’ll take pleasure in this e-book by Becky Libourel Diamond.

From The Gilded Age Press launch:

Sugar plums dancing, gingerbread glistening and truffles topped with clouds of whipped cream — vacation tables of the Gilded Age had been as extravagant because the period itself. Whereas most Individuals acknowledge sugar plums from Clement Clarke Moore’s beloved poem A Go to from St. Nicholas, few have ever savored one (spoiler: they’re not sugar-dusted plums!). As soon as the crown jewels of Victorian confections, these dainty delights disappeared with the daybreak of the twentieth century.

Now, meals author and historian Becky Libourel Diamond brings them again — together with dozens of different decadent desserts — in The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook: Cookies and Treats from America’s Golden Period. Greater than a recipe assortment, it’s a festive feast of flavors, tales and traditions from America’s most dazzling interval.

Diamond has lovingly tailored recipes from the nineteenth century and earlier for at this time’s kitchens, making it attainable to bake the exact same truffles, pies, puddings, custards and candies that when graced Gilded Age vacation tables. Every recipe is paired with historic notes and sprinkled with lore, providing readers a colourful glimpse right into a season when opulence met old school allure.

Whereas the e-book brims with nostalgic Christmas favorites like brown sugar cookies and lemon gingerbread, it additionally highlights seasonal traditions from different celebrations, together with Hanukkah and New Yr’s. Accompanied by vibrant pictures, these recipes invite bakers of all ranges to recreate the flicker and spirit of holidays previous in their very own properties.

The chapters cowl:  cookies, truffles, pies, puddings, and custards, in addition to candies and confections, Hanukkah, and New Yr’s desserts. The e-book has loads of stunning footage and decadent desserts. You could find The Gilded Age Christmas cookbook on Amazon (affiliate hyperlink).


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