German’s are noted the world over for their small cakes. Cookies are as characteristic of different localities as the colloquial speech. A cookie is recognized by its name. For instance, it may be “Low German” in name. If it is there is little difficulty in placing its origin. And thus, no liberties must be taken
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The author remembers as one of her pleasantest childhood experiences the rare Sunday evenings in winter, when the father of the large family decided that he must have bannock he himself made. It was a ritual, making those little water cakes of Scotland. The cook was called from the kitchen. She was given careful instructions
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Cookies in Sweden! Was there ever anything like the display of interesting cakes to be found everywhere in the Land of the Midnight Sun? The Swedish housewife cherishes her small cake recipes as a birthright, handed down to her through many ages of meticulous housewifery. All classes in Sweden eat cookies and drink coffee every
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Denmark, with her low white-washed stone cottages, green meadows and grazing cattle, fires the imagination of the traveler. There is something so substantial, so permanent, so utterly peaceful about the looks of it all that he wonders if Rollo the Dane might not have gazed out upon stone cottages and meadows and grazing cattle that
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Cooking in China is an art. Culinary secrets are handed down like family traditions. There is no such thing in China, the author was told, as a cook book. And though the American and the British who make their homes in the Land of the Lotus Flower have the Anglo Saxon urge for accuracy they
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Italy is the land of enchantment. The traveler is so engaged with the feeling that he can never exhaust the charms of such cities as Naples and Venice, that he can never tire of the wonders of all the art treasures, and the historic interest of all the cathedrals, that for many days he is
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