Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

B. Dylan Hollis

Jul 2023 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The #1 New York Times Bestseller

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century

Friends of baking, are you sick and tired of making the same recipes again and again? Then look no further than this baking blast from the past, as B. Dylan Hollis highlights the most unique tasty treats of yesteryear.

Travel back in time on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Dylan shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. With a big pinch of fun and a full cup of humor, you’ll be baking everything from Chocolate Potato Cake from the 1910s to Avocado Pie from the 1960s.

Dylan has baked hundreds of recipes from countless antique cookbooks and selected only the best for this bakebook, sharing the shining stars from each decade. And because some of the recipes Dylan shares on his wildly popular social media channels are spectacular failures, he’s thrown in a few of the most disastrously strange recipes for you to try if you dare.

A few of Dylan’s favorites that are going to have you licking your lips and begging for more include:
● 1900s Cornflake Macaroons
● 1910s ANZAC Biscuits
● 1930s Peanut Butter Bread
● 1940s Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake
● 1950s Tomato Soup Cake
● 1970s Potato Chip Cookies

Baking Yesteryear contains 101 expertly curated recipes that will take you on a delicious journey through the past. With a larger-than-life personality and comedic puns galore, baking with Dylan never gets old. We’ll leave that to the recipes.

Ratings and reviews

Let me start by letting you know that I was fortunate enough to read a sample, and I can't wait to buy this book! I was a fan from the first time my daughter showed me his TikTok channel, and I'm so glad to see he's doing big things (as we all knew he would). Bringing his zeal for life right into our homes once again, but this time, in a way we can have family bonding time without a phone :) THANK YOU MR. HOLLIS, you have represented your generation, your country, and adopted country well, and brought the magic of the past to life right in front of our eyes! Your fellow history fans think you're just simply the cat's pyjamas!

I had this pre ordered a long time ago everything about this man his book humor top tier this book is not lacking

I love his videos on YouTube and the book is great fun 😊

About the author

B. Dylan Hollis is a social media personality who has tasked himself with baking and tasting unusual recipes from bygone years. Born and raised on the island of Bermuda, he later attended college at the University of Wyoming to further a career as a jazz pianist and arranger. He stumbled into both baking and social media fame at once in 2020, when quarantine boredom led him to film an investigation of an old cookbook he had collected from an estate sale. Hundreds of recipes later, Dylan now entertains millions across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram with his unique style and fast jokes.