Of course you all know B Dylan Hollis right? You’ve seen his videos on TikTok or YouTube and you’ve laughed along with his double (or single) entendres while he cooks a recipe he’s found in some antique book store or that has been shared with him by friends. And it made perfect sense that after trialling old recipes and becoming internet famous (and probably actual famous) he’d put out a cookbook of good recipes he’d discovered and a handful of bad ones. B Dylan Hollis’s Baking Yesteryear: the best recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s was the result.
It was hard to choose what to cook from this book. I started at the beginning, as you do, and almost chose the first several recipes on reading alone. I eventually settled on a handful which I cooked over a couple of weekends, with one that I cooked twice already (because I didn’t do a good job the first time). If you like cakes that aren’t overly sweet, this is definitely a great cookbook for starters. It also helps that Hollis has included metric measurements for things so that translating the recipe across to metric isn’t too difficult. Overall 4.5 stars out of 5 and I can’t wait to cook more from this book.
All cup measures in the text below are US imperial cups – so use the weight instead.
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