Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Step back to 1829 Scotland with The Old Cookbook Show! Today we’re baking a Scotch Diet Cake from The Cook and Housewife’s Manual by Mistress Margaret Dods — a fat-free, pre–baking powder cake made with eggs, sugar, and flour. Explore how Scottish cookery evolved and discover the fascinating footnotes of one very opinionated author.
Scotch Diet-Cake.-Take a pound of fine sugar sifted, the same weight of eggs very well whisked, and mix and beat these together for twenty minutes.
Season with lemon-grate and cinnamon.
Stir in very smoothly three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour. This is a very light cake, and will bake quickly. It may either be iced, or have sifted sugar strewed over it before baking.
Welcome friends, and welcome back to The Old Cookbook Show — where vintage recipes and culinary history come back to life! In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into Scottish cookery from 1829 with The Cook and Housewife’s Manual by Mistress Margaret Dods — a peek into Scottish culinary history.
We’re making a traditional Scotch Diet Cake, a fascinating fat-free cake that predates baking powder, stand mixers, and modern convenience ingredients. With just eggs, sugar, and flour, this 19th-century cake showcases how cooks in Scotland created texture and flavour long before chemical leaveners existed.
Along the way, we’ll explore:
How Scottish recipes evolved from the 1600s through the early 1900s
The surprising use of lemon and cinnamon in a simple cake batter
The historical context of rice flour, trade routes, and class-based cooking in Scotland
And, of course, the witty and opinionated footnotes of Mistress Margaret Dods
Join us every Sunday morning for a new episode of The Old Cookbook Show, where we cook vintage recipes from my collection of cookbooks — spanning from the 1600s to World War II — and discuss how food and culture have both changed and stayed the same.
👩🍳 Whether you’re a food historian, home baker, or lover of traditional recipes, this deep dive into 19th-century Scottish baking will inspire you to see old recipes in a whole new light.
If you enjoy exploring culinary history, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share — and visit our shop for a made-in-Canada apron, perfect for your kitchen, workshop, or greenhouse!
📚 Featured Cookbook: The Cook and Housewife’s Manual (4th Edition, 1829) by Mistress Margaret Dods
🍰 Recipe: Scotch Diet Cake (1829)
📺 Series: The Old Cookbook Show
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Step back to 1829 Scotland with The Old Cookbook Show! Today we’re baking a Scotch Diet Cake from The Cook and Housewife’s Manual by Mistress Margaret Dods — a fat-free, pre–baking powder cake made with eggs, sugar, and flour. Explore how Scottish cookery evolved and discover the fascinating footnotes of one very opinionated author.
Scotch Diet-Cake.-Take a pound of fine sugar sifted, the same weight of eggs very well whisked, and mix and beat these together for twenty minutes.
Season with lemon-grate and cinnamon.
Stir in very smoothly three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour. This is a very light cake, and will bake quickly. It may either be iced, or have sifted sugar strewed over it before baking.
Welcome friends, and welcome back to The Old Cookbook Show — where vintage recipes and culinary history come back to life! In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into Scottish cookery from 1829 with The Cook and Housewife’s Manual by Mistress Margaret Dods — a peek into Scottish culinary history.
We’re making a traditional Scotch Diet Cake, a fascinating fat-free cake that predates baking powder, stand mixers, and modern convenience ingredients. With just eggs, sugar, and flour, this 19th-century cake showcases how cooks in Scotland created texture and flavour long before chemical leaveners existed.
Along the way, we’ll explore:
How Scottish recipes evolved from the 1600s through the early 1900s
The surprising use of lemon and cinnamon in a simple cake batter
The historical context of rice flour, trade routes, and class-based cooking in Scotland
And, of course, the witty and opinionated footnotes of Mistress Margaret Dods
Join us every Sunday morning for a new episode of The Old Cookbook Show, where we cook vintage recipes from my collection of cookbooks — spanning from the 1600s to World War II — and discuss how food and culture have both changed and stayed the same.
👩🍳 Whether you’re a food historian, home baker, or lover of traditional recipes, this deep dive into 19th-century Scottish baking will inspire you to see old recipes in a whole new light.
If you enjoy exploring culinary history, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share — and visit our shop for a made-in-Canada apron, perfect for your kitchen, workshop, or greenhouse!
📚 Featured Cookbook: The Cook and Housewife’s Manual (4th Edition, 1829) by Mistress Margaret Dods
🍰 Recipe: Scotch Diet Cake (1829)
📺 Series: The Old Cookbook Show
#OldCookbookShow #VintageRecipes #ScottishCooking #19thCenturyRecipes #HistoricalCooking #CulinaryHistory #BakingFromScratch #AntiqueCookbooks #ScottishDessert #TraditionalRecipes #FoodHistory #VintageBaking #MistressMargaretDods #ScotchDietCake #HistoricBaking #OldCookbooks #RetroRecipes #HistoryOfFood #HeritageCooking #SundayMorningShow
More info about Hope Air: hopeair.ca
hopeair.ca/impact-report-2024
Here is the link to our Apron: searchandrescuedenim.com/products/s-r-x-glen-friends-chef-apron?country=IO&variant=50865649877152
searchandrescuedenim.com/GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Discount code to be used at checkout: GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Buy us a cup of tea: ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking
Help us out with a PayPal donation: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=T4FPGUQABAUTE
Join this channel:
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This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking.
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