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Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories
From Publishers Weekly
In this sweetly sentimental cookbook, Pinner shares “plain old down-home confections” and her childhood memories of the lively women who created them: Mama, “My My” (her grandmother), “Aints” Lula and Pinky, “Cud’n” Flossie and more. In addition to the standard pound cakes, fruit cobblers and cookies of most home-baking books, she relates some truly original recipes, like Cud’n Bertise’s Mashed Potato Fudge and Cud’n Merle’s Mississippi Bean Fudge, which “d…
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1:28 am on December 9th, 2009
This isn’t just a cookbook, it’s a national treasure! Over the last few years I have purchased numerous cookbooks that center around Southern cooking or Soul Food. This one tops them all. From cover to cover it is a joy to read. The photographs are awesome. This book took a great deal of time to write. Perhaps 100 years. The recipes date back that long. It is a story of families, American families, that we all need to read, enjoy and praise. The recipes are wonderful, homey, comforting, easy to make. I LOVE this book! If you buy only one cookbook this year, Patty Pinner’s book is THE one! Thank you Ms. Pinner for sharing your incredible family with the world. I am overwhelmed.
1:58 am on December 9th, 2009
I got this book & read it cover to cover. I have over 250 cookbooks, and I am a snob when it comes to good cookbooks. Out of all my cookbook, I’d say that this is in the the top 5. It takes me back home to KY, and my grandmother kitchen. And reminds me of all the wonderful food that we ate at home & at the church revivals. All the women would try to out cook each other. The recipies in this book, are almost word for word & step for step what I remember watching my grandmother & the other ladies I grew up watching cook. Patty, you call this Soul food cooking. But to me & everyone raised in the south. It’s just really good/great home cooking. I’d love it if you came out with a cookbook on veggies & meats etc. Bless your heart for writing this book. I thought I lost the chance to make several of the dishes listed in your cookbook. I lost my grandmother, and her recipies with her. I’d only remember some of them. So now, I have them back, and I’ve already started using your cookbook. Amazon will only let me give you 5 stars. But if I could I’d give you 100. Yes people the book is that good. I cook on the side for a living, so I know what I’m talking about!!!!
2:34 am on December 9th, 2009
This magnificent book is a peek into comfort food that is also a family treasure.I have tried the buttermilk pie and oatmeal cookies with excellent results and look forward to trying them all. The recipes are not usually found where I live so my friends are blown away by some of the flavors, eg the buttermilk pie!