Baking Yesteryear

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

Gentles and ladymen, are you sick and tired of making the same baking 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 humour, you'll be baking everything from chocolate potato cake from the 1910s to avocado bread from the 1970s.

Having baked thousands of retro recipes from all kinds of antique cookbooks, Dylan's selected the best of the best for this bakebook, sharing the shining stars from each decade. And since not every recipe Dylan bakes on his wildly popular social media channels turn out delicious, we've thrown in a few of the most disastrously strange recipes for you to try if you want to prank your friends, or if you're simply a glutton for punishment.

A few of Dylan's favorites that are going to have you licking your lips and begging for more include:

• 1909 cornflake macaroons
  
• 1918 anzac biscuits
  
• Great Depression peanut butter bread
  
• 1940s chocolate sauerkraut cake
  
• 1970s potato chip cookies
  

Baking Yesteryear contains 100 recipes expertly curated by B. Dylan Hollis 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.

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.