Day: February 15, 2022

No. Henry David Thoreau Didn’t Invent Raisin Bread

No. Henry David Thoreau Didn’t Invent Raisin Bread

Raisin Bread, you ask? Who invented Raisin Bread? Lest we look too deeply, the answer would seem to be Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau’s biographer, Walter Harding, credited him with the recipe, after all. But…alas… Harding later retracted  that colorful claim when he learned that the…