Sweet Farm!
More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights from My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
More than 100 recipes for sweet treats from New York Times bestselling author and Food Network star Molly Yeh’s cozy kitchen on a sugar beet (and wheat!) farm, to be shared in potlucks, set on the counter for family snacking, or scarfed down in one sitting.
Molly Yeh’s favorite childhood memories are of being in the kitchen with her family, dipping into a tub of sugar to make rugelach, homemade Oreos, and more, so it’s only fitting she married into a family who farm sugar beets. She and her husband, Nick, live and work on the Hagen Farm in East Grand Forks, MN, on the North Dakota border, which has been in operation since the 1870s, and farming sugar beets since the 1930s. In the decade plus since she moved to the farm, Molly has spent her time completely immersed in the world of sugar, both during her work hours, first as a baker and now as a recipe developer, bakery owner, and Food Network personality, and in her home life, running her business and family against the backdrop of the seasonal needs of a thriving farm.
Molly speaks fluent sugar, so recipes for sweets come naturally—as does her drive to perfect them in flavor, texture, and ease of making. The recipes include a mix of church cookbook–inspired gems, from-scratch versions of nostalgic sweets, and new concoctions with flavors drawn from her Asian and Jewish backgrounds as well as beloved Midwestern traditions she’s adopted from her husband’s family and the local community.
Sweet Farm! features cookies, bars, salads, dessert for breakfast, cakes, pies, no bake sweets, and drinks, ranging from 5-minute treats to weekend project showstoppers. Favorite recipes include:
Chewy Frosted Tahini CookiesRhubarb Rose BarsBlack Sesame Babka Blueberry Cream Cheese Bagel Chip SaladSprinkle Cake 2.0Saffron and Cardamom TiramisuMarzipan Soda
As with all of Molly’s books, Sweet Farm! will include recipes that are both homey and excitingly original, charming and funny stories of family life built around the agricultural year, and beautiful photos and illustrations. Home bakers around the country will love Molly’s peek into her life—muddy boots, sticky fingers, and all!
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"Recipes for sweets pour out of me like any bucket of sprinkles that gets handed to my children: swiftly and with great joy," writes Food Network star Yeh (Home Is Where the Eggs Are) in this joyful collection. Yeh's fun, personality-filled confections represent a unique culinary melding of her Jewish/Chinese heritage with her husband's Midwestern farmland roots. For cookies, there are red bean newtons featuring Chinese sweet bean paste and hamantaschen-inspired jumbo thumbprints. A section on "Dessert for Breakfast" features a buttery potato dough perfect for "Chocolate-y Swirly Buns" and puffy potato doughnuts. Peanut butter fudge pie gets a makeover with tahini while the "Sorta Weird Seven-Layer Bars" encompass matzo meal, bagel chips, and chocolate. The chapter on sweet salads is perhaps the most unusual, featuring a "Candy Bar Salad" assembled from chopped candy bars, cream, pudding, and apple slices, and another of roasted rhubarb, strawberries, and pretzel streusel with yogurt and sumac. Yeh proves a fearless, out-of-the-box baker with a breezy voice. Home cooks who are looking to get creative should check this out.