This use of cookies (crumbs) to make cake - the (as you said) twice baked potato of cakes - has a long and proud history. Naples biscuits were the pre-cooked cookies of the 18thC. And the original Gingerbread was reused/reconstituted breadcrumbs!
Honestly - you’ve opened a new door in my quest for “modern versions of old food/techniques”
Fruitcakes were originally energy bars that stored real ,real well. Suet dontcha’ know. Preparing them was pretty much a ritual. So they were made from “new” ingredients.
Oh I was thinking of the 50s abominations like this one, not real fruitcakes, hahaha, I just wondered whether the gross mid-century ones had any alternative recipe fruitcake roots. Sounds like no! That's probably for the best.... https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/F5EAAOSwEBRbiLKL/s-l1600.webp
This use of cookies (crumbs) to make cake - the (as you said) twice baked potato of cakes - has a long and proud history. Naples biscuits were the pre-cooked cookies of the 18thC. And the original Gingerbread was reused/reconstituted breadcrumbs!
Honestly - you’ve opened a new door in my quest for “modern versions of old food/techniques”
Woo!
Oh wow, I didn't know that about gingerbread! I wonder about fruitcake...
Fruitcakes were originally energy bars that stored real ,real well. Suet dontcha’ know. Preparing them was pretty much a ritual. So they were made from “new” ingredients.
Oh I was thinking of the 50s abominations like this one, not real fruitcakes, hahaha, I just wondered whether the gross mid-century ones had any alternative recipe fruitcake roots. Sounds like no! That's probably for the best.... https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/F5EAAOSwEBRbiLKL/s-l1600.webp