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The History of Cupcakes
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- 06.26.2009
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We all are well aware that cupcakes are delicious, but we thought it would be interesting to delve into the history of cupcakes and see where exactly these delicious treats came from!
Cupcakes have long been popular due to their bite sized nature and ease of transportation. FoodTimeLine tells us that there are two popular theories on where the actual name 'cupcake' originated: The name comes from the amount of ingredients used to make the cake (a cupful of flour, a cupful of butter, cupful of sugar etc.) or, these cakes were originally baked in earthenware teacups or other small clay baking pans.
Additionally the tradition of naming cakes for their measurements dates to the 18th century. In the days when many people couldn't read, this simple convention made it easy to remember recipes. Modern day cupcakes are most likely to have evolved from "1,2,3,4 cakes" which had the ingredients of: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, and 4 eggs.
It took a significant amount of time for cupcakes to become what we know them as today. Suite101 explains that, one of the earliest records comes from the Fanny Merritt Farmer’s Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. In this book the cook is instructed to bake individual cakes in tin cups. Paper liners were not used until just after World War I when the James River Corporation manufactured cupcake liners on machines that a few years before were making artillery shells. Commercial cupcakes reached the market some time before World War II.
Today cupcakes are happily enjoy by people all over the globe with each culture adding its own unique nuance and culinary twist to the popular dessert.
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