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Frederick D. Hauptmann
A 19th-century baker who turned years of hands-on experience into a practical guide for home and professional bakers alike. His best-known work preserves recipes and methods for bread, cakes, pies, and even ice cream from an earlier American baking tradition.
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Bread and cake baking : A collection of recipes for making bread, cakes, pies, ice cream, &c.
by Frederick D. Hauptmann
About the author
Frederick D. Hauptmann is known for Bread and Cake Baking, first published in 1877. In the book's introduction, he explains that he wrote it to share what he had learned from more than ten years of practical work in bread and cake baking and ice-cream making, with the aim of helping anyone interested in baking.
His book is straightforward and useful in spirit, combining recipes with practical instruction rather than treating baking as something mysterious. That makes it an interesting window into everyday food knowledge in the late 19th century, and a helpful record of how bakers explained their craft to a wider public.
Available records also identify a Frederick Dietrich Hauptmann, born in Pittsburgh on February 1, 1850, and died in New Waterford, Ohio, on May 9, 1938. I could not fully confirm from the sources I found that every biographical detail belongs to the same author, so it is safest to say that Hauptmann remains best remembered today through his enduring baking manual.