by B.L. Unkel | May 20, 2023 | Baking
Other than those of you allergic to chocolate, who doesn’t love a warm, just-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookie? It’s hands down America’s favorite. But how much do you know about this cookie? The Toll House Inn In 1930, Ruth Wakefield and her husband Ken...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 25, 2023 | Baking
The Algonquins’ (Native Americans) word for it meant “a nut too hard to crack by hand.” When the Spanish Explorers arrived on the Texas and Louisiana shores, they called it a “wrinkle nut.” Today, it’s simply called a pecan. History Pecan trees are native to...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 17, 2022 | Baking
Time for more Butter trivia. “Modern” History As mentioned in last week’s, Did You Know No Mummy Would Be Caught Dead Without Butter?, until the nineteenth century, butter was produced by hand-churning only. The first butter production factories...
by B.L. Unkel | Nov 19, 2022 | Baking
With the holidays fast approaching, so too are pies, cookies, and candy. And the one thing they all have in common? Sugar. History While all green plants make sugar, only sugar beets and sugarcane make enough for extraction to be practical. The knowledge and...
by B.L. Unkel | Nov 5, 2022 | Baking
National Candy Day is celebrated on November 4. Did you know… The word candy first showed up in the English language in the late 13th century. It came from the French cucre candi, which came from the Persian’s Qand and Qandi, meaning cane sugar. America saw candy made...
by B.L. Unkel | Oct 8, 2022 | Baking
Don’t you just love fall? It brings cooler weather, the smell of wood smoke in the air, and color in the trees. But there’s another reason to love fall—apples. History Did you know it’s believed apples come from modern-day Kazakhstan in Central Asia? Their...
