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| Sweets: Soul Food Desserts & Memories | 
 enlarge | Author: Patty Pinner
Creator: Sheri Giblin
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 28936
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 166
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1580087981
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.86
EAN: 9781580087988
ASIN: 1580087981
Publication Date: August 2006
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Condition: Brand new! May have a remainder mark.
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Product Description
More than 100 recipes for cakes, pies and cobblers, cookies and candies, puddings, and ice cream from a small-town African-American family's soul food kitchen.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Marvelous Potential December 3, 2008
The pineapple pie was the first to be eaten this past Thanksgiving! More recipes are slated for Christmas treats: i.e., the chocolate pudding rum cake and banana cake. I ordered two copies, expecting heavy wear.
Warm memories and sweet soul food September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Patty Pinner, author of the recent Sweety Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie, revisits the sweet desserts of her childhood in her first book Sweets, along with memories of growing up in Saginaw and of her family from Mississippi. The book is graced with vintage black-and-white snapshots of the author and her family (she has the most captivating, confident smile as a little girl) that illustrate the many down-home, Southern soul food staples: puddings, cobblers, pies, rich cakes, homemade candy, cookies, and ice cream. But the stories nearly upstage the desserts: tales of fanatically clean relatives, childhood birthday parties, the mysterious lives of grownups, and the lives of various family members intertwine with the comforting desserts of a Southern legacy (pecans, molasses, coconut and brown sugar all have starring roles).
Some of the more unusual offerings include a Dr. Pepper cake (there's Dr. Pepper in both the cake and the frosting; it adds moistness, similar to a Coca-Cola cake), a sweet potato cheesecake, a lemon rum cake, and recipes born from thrift, such as butter bean pie, mashed potato and bean fudges, and little of nothing pie (milk, sugar, flour, vanilla, butter and cinnamon).
The ingredients are items that are probably sitting in your pantry or cabinets right now, so there's no reason not to give some of these wonderful heirloom recipes a try; why not sample some old-fashioned walnut-raisin pie, black walnut brittle, old-fashioned sweet potato pone, or a slice of walnut wonder cake? If you like homemade candy, there are many recipes for nut brittles (black walnut, cashew, peanut), peanut butter candy, and pralines. Ditto on homemade ice cream: you'll find soothing favorites such as banana, an intense lemon, peach, strawberry, and vanilla ice creams, along with some tantalizing sauces (rum sauce, caramel wine syrup).
Honestly, even if you never try a single recipe, this is a beautiful tribute to family, soul food, and a snapshot of Saginaw in the 1950s-60s. Pinner's writing style is engaging and friendly, and you'll find yourself happily crowded around her family's dinner table swapping gossip with her various female relatives as you try to decide which dessert to sample first.
Amazing Sweet Desserts! June 27, 2008
This book is filled with nostalgic black and white vintage photos of her family which will remind you of your own family back in the good 'ol days...don't miss out on the Pineapple Upside Down Cake baked in an iron black skillet, oh my!!!
Best Dessert Cookbook EVER! June 2, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Foolproof recipes with entertaining family stories. Every recipe I've tried has turned out perfectly (with the exception of the slow-cooked caramel icing) so this is my new Dessert Bible!
Only cookbook I've ever read cover to cover! January 3, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Patty Pinner's childhood comes to life through her stories & recipes, and her "womanly" advice adds charm to her cakes and pies. I have to admit, this is the only cookbook that has found it's place on my bedside table because of the great stories and old family photographs.
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