Baking In The American South

Author : Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469668378
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grain and Fire written by Rebecca Sharpless and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions—Indigenous American, European, and African—collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the southern baking tradition. Recognizing that sentiments around southern baking run deep, Sharpless takes delight in deflating stereotypes as she delves into the surprising realities underlying the creation and consumption of baked goods. People who controlled the food supply in the South used baking to reinforce their power and make social distinctions. Who used white cornmeal and who used yellow, who put sugar in their cornbread and who did not had traditional meanings for southerners, as did the proportions of flour, fat, and liquid in biscuits. By the twentieth century, however, the popularity of convenience foods and mixes exploded in the region, as it did nationwide. Still, while some regional distinctions have waned, baking in the South continues to be a remarkable, and remarkably tasty, source of identity and entrepreneurship.

Author : Cheryl Day
Publisher : Artisan Books
ISBN 13 : 1579658415
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cheryl Day's Treasury of Southern Baking written by Cheryl Day and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and comprehensive Southern baking book from one of the South’s best and most respected bakers, Cheryl Day.

Author : Anne Byrn
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 9781579546922
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cake Mix Doctor written by Anne Byrn and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cake mix doctor...doctors cake mixes to create more than 200 luscious desserts with from-scratch taste.

Author : Prudence Hilburn
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Southern Baking written by Prudence Hilburn and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives recipes for baking in the tradition of the American South.

Author : Nancie McDermott
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452112827
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Cakes written by Nancie McDermott and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of sixty-five of the greatest cake recipes from the South, plus plenty of baking tips, from the author of Southern Pies. It’s time to relax on the porch swing and feast your eyes on some of the tastiest cakes you’ll ever sink your fork into. There are recipes here for everything from Brown Sugar Pound Cake and fluffy white coconut cakes layered with lemon curd or raspberry jam to the chocolatey goodness of Mississippi Mud Cake and the extravagant elegance of Lady Baltimore Cake. With cakes this delectable, it’s no wonder Southerners are so proud of their baking history. Jam cakes and jelly rolls; humble pear bread and peanut cake; cakes with one, two, three, and four layers; and even Eudora Welty’s bourbon-soaked white fruitcake—each moist and delicious forkful represents the welcome-to-the-South attitude of the sultry Southern states. The Baking 101 section explains the basics, including buying the proper equipment, mixing the perfect batter, putting on the finishing touches (that means frosting, and lots of it!), and the how-to’s of storing your lovely cake so that the last slice tastes as delightful and moist as the first. As you page through Southern Cakes, you’ll surely come across some old favorites as well as many new delectable treats, plus a generous helping of Southern hospitality in each and every slice. “Food writer Nancie McDermott has compiled 65 of the most sinfully delicious cakes . . . and the result could make even Scarlet O’Hara weak in the knees.” —Chocolatier Magazine “For my money, the grandest-looking cakes in this book are the brown sugar pound cakes baked in a tube pan with a lush mass of caramel glaze drooling down its sides, and the classic coconut cake, with its feathery, dazzling white frosting. When I brought the coconut cake to the office, people in the street were literally lunging at it.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Rafia Zafar
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353655
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recipes for Respect written by Rafia Zafar and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the mainstream. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day, African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error, highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions, as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining, cooking, and serving. Whether revealed in cookbooks or fiction, memoirs or hotel-keeping manuals, agricultural extension bulletins or library collections, foodways knowledge sustained Black strategies for self-reliance and dignity, the preservation of historical memory, and civil rights and social mobility. If, to follow Mary Douglas’s dictum, food is a field of action—that is, a venue for social intimacy, exchange, or aggression—African American writing about foodways constitutes an underappreciated critique of the racialized social and intellectual spaces of the United States.

Author : Anne Byrn
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0761159487
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cake Mix Doctor Returns! written by Anne Byrn and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could be better than a phenomenon? The return of a phenomenon. Ten years ago Anne Byrn's The Cake Mix Doctor began its extraordinary run as one of the most popular baking books of all time. Now Anne Byrn is back with the all-new Cake Mix Doctor Returns! From the beloved author who showed home bakers how adding a touch of sweet butter or a dusting of cocoa powder, a dollop of vanilla yogurt or flurry of grated lemon zest could transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Here are 160 brand-new recipes—that’s right, 160 amazing cake mix recipes—for luscious layer cakes, sheet cakes, brownies, bars, cookies, and more. And the book is needed more than ever. Today 90 percent of home cooks use prepackaged mixes, while the economy is creating a perfect excuse to let them eat cake—cake equals happiness. And what cakes! 40 layer cakes, from Tiramisu Cake to The Best Red Velvet Cake, Strawberry Refrigerator Cake to Chocolate Swirled Cannoli Cake. 35 sheet cakes. 38 bundt and pound cakes. 16 cupcakes and muffins, plus the cult classic Whoopie Pie. And brownies, bars, and cookies, including Spice Drop Cookies, Angel Food Macaroons, and Chocolate Espresso Biscotti. There's even a wedding cake, a frequent request from the author's passionate online community. The Cake Mix Doctor is back—just say ahhhhh!

Author : Damon Lee Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743250583
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking written by Damon Lee Fowler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents easy-to-follow instructions for Southern-style quickbreads, cookies, cakes, pies and pastries, skillet breads, and old-fashioned yeast breads, accompanied by a short overview of each recipe's origins.

Author : Anne Byrn
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1623365430
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cake written by Anne Byrn and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cakes have become an icon of American cultureand a window to understanding ourselves. Be they vanilla, lemon, ginger, chocolate, cinnamon, boozy, Bundt, layered, marbled, even checkerboard--they are etched in our psyche. Cakes relate to our lives, heritage, and hometowns. And as we look at the evolution of cakes in America, we see the evolution of our history: cakes changed with waves of immigrants landing on ourshores, with the availability (and scarcity) of ingredients, with cultural trends and with political developments. In her new book American Cake, Anne Byrn (creator of the New York Times bestselling series The Cake Mix Doctor) will explore this delicious evolution and teach us cake-making techniques from across the centuries, all modernized for today’s home cooks. Anne wonders (and answers for us) why devil’s food cake is not red in color, how the Southern delicacy known as Japanese Fruit Cake could be so-named when there appears to be nothing Japanese about the recipe, and how Depression-era cooks managed to bake cakes without eggs, milk, and butter. Who invented the flourless chocolate cake, the St. Louis gooey butter cake, the Tunnel of Fudge cake? Were these now-legendary recipes mishaps thanks to a lapse of memory, frugality, or being too lazy to run to the store for more flour? Join Anne for this delicious coast-to-coast journey and savor our nation's history of cake baking. From the dark, moist gingerbread and blueberry cakes of New England and the elegant English-style pound cake of Virginia to the hard-scrabble apple stack cake home to Appalachia and the slow-drawl, Deep South Lady Baltimore Cake, you will learn the stories behind your favorite cakes and how to bake them.

Author : Anne Byrn
Publisher : Harper Celebrate
ISBN 13 : 9780785291336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baking in the American South written by Anne Byrn and published by Harper Celebrate. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness the rise of Southern baking from humble recipes to one of the world's richest culinary traditions in this essential cookbook from bestselling author Anne Byrn. With 200 recipes and hundreds of 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.