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Jim Fobel's Old-Fashioned Baking Book: Recipes From An American Childhood
Jim Fobel's OldFashioned Baking Book Recipes From An American Childhood Author:Jim Fobel Bakers everywhere will treasure the unfailingly delicious recipes. One of the Best Cookbooks of the Year, states The James Beard Foundation. Jim Fobel, a protege of James Beard and frequent contributor to Food & Wine and other magazines, recreates for this book the best of many hundreds of baking recipes perfected by his grandmother, h... more »is mother and his aunts. There are no elaborate photo spreads of artsy kitchen-work, just the occasional black and white photo from Fobel's family album. Mr. Fobel started from a pile of crumbling, yellowed recipes that inevitably left out changes and whole steps that his family members knew by heart, and recreated the nostalgic wonders of his childhood for us to enjoy in our own kitchens. Ingredients are set apart visually from instructions, and instructions are divided into short, convenient numbered steps that make the recipes easy to follow. Whether you want something simple that mostly uses dry ingredients and a few things you probably already have around the house, or you're in the mood for something that uses the best of the season's fresh fruit, you'll definitely find it here!
There's a marble cake that's hardly any more difficult to make than a boxed cake mix, yet infinitely more moist and delicious. There's a raspberry cream pie with exquisite sweet-tartness. You'll find recipes for traditional favorites such as coconut cream, pecan, and pumpkin pies, but you'll also find things like banana meringue pie, Mrs. Paasanen's cheese pie, and a glazed strawberry pie. Cakes range from a golden fruitcake to burnt butter cupcakes, chocolate coffee cream roll, and a maple layer cake. There are coffee cakes, sweet rolls, yeast breads, cookies of all kinds, and of course cobblers, crunches, etc.« less