Rumford Baking Powder recipe slide, Count Rumford taped talks and Hot Milk Cake

This recipe pull out card (recipe slide) of 1926, included 25 recipes for cakes and cookies, one being Hot Milk Cake, by Mrs. Lily H Wallace for Rumford Baking Powder. Two early Hot Milk Cake recipes are from church cookbooks c1900.

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Several taped talks on Count Rumford



Hot Milk Cake: 1C sugar, 1/2C milk, 2 eggs, 1/8C butter, 1C flour, 1t baking powder, 1t flavoring, 1/3t salt. Beat eggs, add sugar and flavoring, dry ingredients sifted, then milk brought to boil with butter melted in it.

HOT MILK CAKE. M. E. GILL. Mix together, two eggs well beaten, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one teaspoonful baking powder; one-half cup milk, butter size of an egg, scald together until butter is melted, then add to the others. Very nice.
The New Church Cook Book. The Aglaia Club. Brockton MA: 1902

HOT MILK CAKE. 1 cup hot milk, 4 eggs, 2 t. butter, 2 ½ t. baking powder, 1 t. vanilla, 1/2 t salt, 1 t. lemon extract, 2 cups flour, 2 cups sugar.
Mix butter with hot milk, add rest of ingredients and beat 3 minutes. Bake 30 minutes in slow oven.
The Cook's Treasure House… Ladies Aid Society of the Second Congregational Church. Waterbury, CT: c1900

Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson, 1753-1814) created many kitchen devices, such as the famed Rumford Roaster (this one is in Hamilton Hall, Salem) past blog posts HERE -

Rumford kitchen with flues from the boilers (stew stove holes). note the fireplace on top with the slanted sides. The Complete Works of Count Rumford. Boston: 1874 v3

More efficient, thus smaller fireplace for heat - Comforts of a Rumford Stove, charicature by James Gillray, 1800

A few smaller items not by Rumford, but by a Rumford company not created by Rumford. Eben Horsford (1818-1893, Rumford Chair at Harvard from 1847-1861) created what would become Rumford Baking Powder in 1859.

COUNT RUMFORD TAPED TALKS

Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814) was born into a farming family from Woburn, Mass, about 12 miles north west of Boston. His home is now a museum. First talk includes a virtual tour. Painting by Gainsborough 1783.

Count Rumford - The Life and Legacy of Benjamin Thompson. Kathy Lucero. finish with tour of Rumford birthplace. Woburn Historical Society. Mar 2021 TAPE HERE

Count Rumford and his 18th Century Technology Innovations. Dan Kleppner. Lexington Computer and Technology Group. Se 2020 TAPE HERE

Count Rumford aka Sir Benjamin Thompson. "From Woburn Farmboy to Count of the Holy Roman Empire" personal life history. Howard Cohen. Lexington Computer and Technology Group. May 2022 TAPE HERE

Historical Cooking at Hamilton Hall. Beehive Oven (Radiation heat), Rumford Fireplace (Conduction), Rumford Roaster (Convection) Marshall. Hamilton Hall, Salem. Se 2020 15 min. TAPE HERE

Cooking At Hamilton Hall. Dan Randall. Hamilton Hall, Salem. May 2020 6 min TAPE HERE

A very savoury and substantial repast Dining experiences at nineteenth century. “technologies of large-scale soup production, the recipes for, and perceptions of, soup and explore the social relations that soup kitchens engendered in Georgian and Victorian England.” Philip Carstairs. IHR Institute of Historical Research. Nov 2018 TAPE HERE

More about Mme. Lavoisier than M. Lavoisier. Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier (1758-1836) Chemist and artist. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794 guillotined), chemist; m 1804-7 Count Rumford (1753-1814) 34:36 TAPE HERE

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CALENDAR OF VIRTUAL FOOD HISTORY TALKS HERE

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