Sweety Pies
Delicious Recipes and Warm Memories
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Sweety Pies brings you 70 scrumptious pie recipes and the stories of the amazing women behind them. Along with their signature pies and baking secrets, these ladies dish out a large dose of life experience. So touching is the connection between pie and baker that you'll feel like Miss Viola Tresvant is right alongside you sprinkling Crumb Topping on your juicy Blueberry Pie or that Sister Baby is giving you her nod of approval for doing her Buttermilk Pie proud!
A lovely gift for yourself and daughter, mother, sister, friend...all the special women in your world
70 scrumptious pie recipes, each a specialty of a very special lady
70 richly rewarding stories, some outrageously funny, some unforgettably moving
Dozens of practical tips for making perfect pie EASY as pie, even for beginning bakers
Full-color photos of the pies and nostalgic photos of the pie ladies
A book that will warm your heart as you warm your kitchen with mouthwatering aromas
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this culinary memoir featuring over 50 home-baked pies, Pinner weaves personal stories with recipes for standards such as Apple and Mixed Berry, as well as less common but equally delicious offerings such as Lemon Chess Pie and an ice cream-based Caramel Tin Roof Pie. As in her last, 2003's well-received Sweets: A Collection of Soul Food Desserts and Memories, each recipe is accompanied by an anecdote from the author's childhood, giving readers the feeling of being in the kitchen with Pinner as she reflects on family and friendship, drawing from her stories advice on treating loved ones right; however, as none hint at the taste of the dishes they accompany, bakers might find these tales frustrating, especially in regard to lesser-known dishes like Rice Pie and Sister Chestermae Hayes's Apple Butter Pie. Still, those with a soft spot for pies will find a treasure trove of recipes that prove intriguingly left-of-center; tellingly, the opening pie recipe (following a helpful primer on crusts) might be considered heresy by some: a blueberry peach cobbler that calls for 3 cups of blueberry muffin mix. Pinner's point, repeated throughout, is that the time spent in the kitchen with family and friends matters more than "authentic" ingredients or tricky preparation.
