One of Connecticut's contributions to American culinary lore is Hartford election cake, barely known or served anymore. I was curious to uncover its story for a cooking class I was teaching on Connecticut heritage foods in early November, close to the2012 elections. My research led to the evolution of bread into cakes, the range of special European holiday breads, the Connecticut Colony Fundamental Orders of 1639, the use and production of potash and pearl ash in Connecticut, the East Anglican foodways of our early Puritan settlers, and the publication of cookbooks in early America.
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