The image above is of an apple pie, ca. 1846. That's not chocolate, people - it's molasses.Yes, the intrepid bakers over at the American Antiquarian Society have been baking from old cookbooks again. This time, they tested 3 historic recipes against a modern one. The historic recipes relied on some odd flavor combinations (not just molasses, but also wine and lemon or rosewater and sugar).
And as before, they used helpless, innocent fellows at the AAS as their experimental subjects. Poor, poor fellows.
Everyone agreed that the modern pie was best. But really - who can blame them when the alternatives were so dire? Molasses? Blech!
Check it out. This is great fun and I hope they keep it up. Also, take a moment to be jealous of the varieties of New England apples they get to play with.
[Hat tip to Intrepid Researcher Bray for his relentless internet perambulations, which brought you this fun ride through the olden times.]
1 comment:
Dude, why is everybody hating on molasses? What did molasses ever do to earn this opprobrium?
Molasses cookies: good!
Pureed butternut squash with molasses: good!
Rum: good!
On behalf of my client, molasses, we demand a formal retraction, dude.
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