In the esteemed collection 'Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie,' Eliza Leslie provides a seminal work beloved by culinary enthusiasts and historians alike. Embedded within the fabric of 19th-century American cookery, this volume offers a meticulous repertoire of recipes—'receipts' in the parlance of the era—that exemplify the grace and precision of period confec...