Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories (A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking) – Enjoy Fresh, Spring Homemade Baked Goods. The Perfect Mother’s Day Cookbook Gift for Mom
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Baking in the American South is honored to be included in the Best of List for Cookbooks by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association.
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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From comfort food to Southern baking, vegetable-focused mains to grilled perfection, there’s something for every one at our table.
Main Dishes
Delicious Desserts
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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 1.79 x 10.29 inches
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Customers find this cookbook wonderful, with lots of good recipes and amazingly delicious food. Moreover, the book provides informative history details and beautiful photographs. Additionally, customers appreciate its readability, with one customer noting it reads like a novel.
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Sheryl Layton –
Historical Southern Cookbook to be Treasured
Purchased as a Christmas gift for my husband who loves to make desserts. It is a quality book full of great recipes, all kinds of baking, from biscuits to pies and beautifully illustrated. This is more than a book of recipes, it is full of stories of people and cooking in the South. A true treasure.
Kindle Customer –
Just when you think you have enough southern cookbooks comes this gem…
This book is a treasure. The history, both regional and food history, is fabulous and engrossing. It is very well written and entertaining. I plan to buy this in book form as well as kindle because I just loved it so much. It has beautiful recipes that I can’t wait to try for myself. Definitely worth the price of purchase. You won’t be disappointed.
NancyCat –
Wonderful history book and cookbook
I grew up in South Georgia and with all Southern food, trained by my mother, two grandmothers, and my third precious grandmother, my grandmotherâs cook. I thought I knew every recipe there is from Georgia. There is so much more here. I sit and read and cry, remembering our history in the South. I read a recipe this morning from one of my motherâs dear friends; she and my mother are both gone now. I have eaten her recipe many times and met her several times on visits. When I found the recipe this morning I was sobbing, for the loss of the recipe owner, which recipe she never gave to anyone, and the loss of my mother and all 3 grandmothers. Each recipe is delivered with pictures, and with a loving history of the cook and where they made the recipe. There are recipes from white folk, black folk, transplanted Europeans. There are recipes by religious tradition, cultural traditions, types of baking. If you love cornbread, biscuits, pies, cakes, and who doesnât love all of those, you will be in Heaven. And there is more which I havenât gotten to yet. I knew it would be good when several of the recipes I have used for years are in the book. Exactly as I make them. Donât hesitate to purchase this book if you love authentic Southern cooking, and also for the references of where to buy the best ingredients for each type of baking. Christmas is comingâ¦â¦buy for your Mother, your Sister, your Daughter, your friends. Anyone who loves to bake. And be prepared to smile and cry.
John Perry –
Great for any baker or history buff
What a beautiful cookbook. So much history and wonderful recipes. I am happy to add this to my cookbook collection. I liked it so much I ordered one as a gift. Great for anyone who enjoys the stories behind the recipes. Canât wait to start baking.
Gigi –
Excellent reference for cornbread, biscuits
There were a lot of cornbread options. Being familiar with homemade biscuits and some of the other recipes, I enjoyed the historical information included briefly in the recipes. Although trying to limit baked items for weight control reasons I plan to incorporate some baked items into my meals from time to time.
ACH –
A Favorite in our Home
This is an amazing cookbook, and I am so glad I bought it. The popover recipe is the best I have tried. The peanut butter pancakes have become a favorite in my home, and I am getting multiple requests to make them. We have loved the corn muffins, corn bread and cream cheese biscuits. I am a cookbook lover, and I have many (over 50). This is one of my favorites. Full disclosure, I love southern cooking, so I do not mind that there is about 20 cornbread recipes and biscuit recipes, each. I do not mind that there are several recipes for a pound cake. I love the recommendation for where to buy good cornmeal, and I love the stories. This is a favorite.
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!
LillysNana –
My favorite cookbook!!
Oh my goodness!!! This is my all time favorite cookbook! The pages are beautiful, photographs and stories are superb. Recipes are ::chefs kiss:: buy this one!!! You wonât regret it one bit!