Ebook: American Cake:From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best-Loved Cakes

1650 to 1799: baking cakes in early America -- 1800 to 1869: new cakes & new directions -- 1870 to 1899:a scientific approach: baking powder & Fannie Farmer -- 1900 to 1916: birth of the American layer cake -- 1917 to 1945: baking in the good times & the bad times -- 1946 to 1962: Tupperware, bake-offs, & a new domesticity -- 1963 to 1979: American cake times are a-changin' -- 1980 to 1999: cakes born in the USA -- 2000 to the present: the cakes of the new millenium -- Frostings & icings.