Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories (A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking)
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Experience mouthwatering Southern baking—from humble home kitchens to innovative new Southern chefs. One of the world’s richest culinary traditions comes to life through this essential cookbook from bestselling author Anne Byrn. With 200 recipes from 14 states and more than 150 photos, Baking in the American South has the biscuits, cornbread, cakes, and rolls that will help you bake like a Southerner, even if you aren’t.
Recipes can tell you volumes if you pay attention—the crops raised, languages spoken, family customs, old world flavors, and, often, religion. Did you know that where a mill was located affected the recipes handed down from that area? Or that baking and selling pound cakes directly impacted the Civil Rights Movement? These stories and recipes, developed from good times and bad, have been collected and perfected over years and are now accessible to us all. Anne’s expertise in assessing, modernizing, and developing well-written recipes makes this the definitive guide for bakers of all levels.
From-scratch, Southern classic recipes include:
Thomasville Cheese BiscuitsOuita Michel’s Sweet Potato Streusel MuffinsNina Cain’s Batty Cakes with Lacy EdgesThe Best Lemon Meringue PieGeorgia Gilmore’s Pound Cake
This fascinating dive into the history of 14 Southern states—Texas, Florida, Kentucky, and more—features stories and beautifully photographed recipes from pre-Civil War times to today’s Southern kitchens. It’s about the places, the people, the products and the culture of the moment that influenced what people baked. It’s about African-American women and the monumental contributions they have made to the art of Southern baking, about home cooks and how they’ve kept traditions alive wherever they settle by baking family recipes each year for holidays and celebrations, and about the pastry chefs who have thoughtfully reimagined how the South bakes.
Experience the recipes and the stories behind them that showcase the substantial contributions Southern baking has made to American baking at large. Food historians, bakers, foodies, and cookbook collectors from every corner of the country will want this cookbook in their collections.
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Publisher : Harper Celebrate (September 3, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 512 pages
ISBN-10 : 0785291334
ISBN-13 : 978-0785291336
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.35 x 1.7 x 10.3 inches
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Customers find the recipes wonderful, fun, and illustrated. They also appreciate the informative information about flour. Readers say the book is filled with history and stories that read like novels.
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Marie C. Jones –
Great Cookbook!
This is a great cookbook, wonderful recipes, love the stories, love the photos. Lots of info about how toâs, ingredients etc. Get it!
Southerngirl –
My New Favorite Cookbook!
Iâve always enjoyed books by this author so was excited to order this new one. It arrived today, and all I can say is WOW! I knew Iâd love it but it exceeded all my expectations! It is HUGE, filled not only with recipes that remind me of growing up in the south, but also with captivating stories and beautiful photographs. Anne Byrn has outdone herself with this one! This will be a coffee table book for me, to browse through whenever I have time. And Iâve already zeroed in on several recipes to start with. THANK YOU Anne Byrn for creating a cookbook that is so worth buying in the age of internet recipes. Highly recommend!
Jolene Handy –
Baking in the American South is an instant classic
This book is magnificent â 200+ detailed recipes and beautifully photographed southern classics. Itâs filled with history and stories that read like a novel. The first thing I baked were one of the biscuit recipes and they were perfect. Congratulations, Anne Byrn, you knocked it out of the park!
HENRY F LONG JR –
Size and information
Here is what I think. The recipes are wonderful. But the book is so large and heavy to handle. I believe you could have made a book out of every section with the same type of intro. Because all the info about flour etc was very informative. A real need in every book. This way you can hit a bigger audience because everyone would have a section they like better.
Kathy –
Fun cookbook!
This is a very well written and illustrated cookbook with lots of fun recipes to try!
HJ –
Southern Baking with Stories, History, and Recipes
Anne Byrn is one of my favorite cookbook author and I love her cookbooks. Of course, this became one of my favorites quickly and this is why.This book features recipes from the south and every recipe comes with history and tells us how life and history evolve them throughout the years. Stories behind each and every recipes are truly fascinating and worth a read. Not to mention this book brings an outstanding amount of true Southern baked goods that will make you want to start baking from cornbread, biscuits to pies and many more! The only thing I wish this book had was more photographs of the recipes, however, this would’ve been a ginormous cookbook if it contained more pics since it already is a huge book.I’m not from Southern area, but I love their foods and the joy they bring. I learned a lot from Baking in the American South and can’t recommend enough to anyone who loves baking and would like to bake Southern baked gems!
Amazon Customer –
More than a cookbook
This book provides such interesting information about where the item came from and/or who âinventedâ it.This is an outstanding book and one of my favorites!
I. M. –
She loved it!
This was a birthday gift for a friend who loves to bake and was raised in N. Carolina. She opened to a random page that showed a recipe for a cake made in aregion of her home state and was thrilled to see it was one she always loved as a kid. I was thrilled for her. Perfect gift!