Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie

"Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats" by Miss Leslie is a collection of old-fashioned baking recipes. This book is a helpful guide to making American desserts, designed to be easy enough for everyone to follow, from experts to people just learning to cook. At the start, Miss Leslie tells you why she wrote the book, focusing on simple directions that are easier to understand compared to fancy European cookbooks. The book is split into three sections: pastries and sweets, cakes, and other recipes. Each recipe gives you a list of what you need and step-by-step directions to help anyone make tasty desserts without any trouble.