You Be Sweet Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time
By Patsy Caldwell and Amy Wilson
You know how those Southern dessert recipes go—a cup of
sugar here, a stick of butter there, eight squares of baking
chocolate, or a pint of the season’s juiciest fruit. That recipe for
blueberry cream pie—it’s been passed around the church for so long
nobody can quite remember who made it first. Or how about the one for
red velvet cheesecake you’ve been trying to coax out of your
sister-in-law for years? She serves it every Christmas Eve, but so far
her lips are sealed.
These are the types of food traditions that inspire You Be Sweet—a celebration of Southern dessert recipes and the people who cherish them. In this compilation of stories and sweet treats, Patsy Caldwell and Amy Lyles Wilson peek in on those occasions special enough to demand something decadent, and memorable enough to be repeated time and again. You’ll find the strawberry jam bars that always make an appearance at the neighborhood picnic. The German chocolate cake roll that pulls in the big bucks at the charity bake sale? That’s here too. The blackberry jelly recipe that has graced Mason jars all over the South for decades? It’s here, and it’s just about the best hostess gift you can offer up. Be sweet? You won’t be able to help it!
This is one of those cookbooks that I love. Each chapter starts off with a little story, and then into the recipes. What I especially enjoyed about this book is that the recipes aren't your standard, google it and there it is recipes. These are quirky, and you can just tell that they are tried and true. I mean, who wouldn't want to eat a big slice of Caramel Pecan Chocolate Cake? Um, seconds please! I also love how they are organized. There are chapters called Honey's Sweet Tooth or The Ladies who Lunch. So if you are looking for something that fits with the occasion, you just have to find that occasion and whala, there's your recipe. I love it. I think the first thing I am going to make is the sour cream blueberry pancakes. Yum. My daughter's birthday is coming up soon and she always asks for pancakes for her birthday breakfast. Usually I turn to the box (yep, you know the one). But that's because I've never tried to make them from scratch. My mother did once, and they don't bring back fond memories. I think it's high time we make some new pancake memories.
The only down side I did see to this is that there aren't pictures of all the recipes, or at least there aren't in the digital copy that I received. But the photos that are there are so tempting that I had to close down the reader until after I had lunch. I was starting to salivate! This is one cookbook that I think I need a physical copy of. It's just beautiful, both in words, photos and recipes.
These are the types of food traditions that inspire You Be Sweet—a celebration of Southern dessert recipes and the people who cherish them. In this compilation of stories and sweet treats, Patsy Caldwell and Amy Lyles Wilson peek in on those occasions special enough to demand something decadent, and memorable enough to be repeated time and again. You’ll find the strawberry jam bars that always make an appearance at the neighborhood picnic. The German chocolate cake roll that pulls in the big bucks at the charity bake sale? That’s here too. The blackberry jelly recipe that has graced Mason jars all over the South for decades? It’s here, and it’s just about the best hostess gift you can offer up. Be sweet? You won’t be able to help it!
This is one of those cookbooks that I love. Each chapter starts off with a little story, and then into the recipes. What I especially enjoyed about this book is that the recipes aren't your standard, google it and there it is recipes. These are quirky, and you can just tell that they are tried and true. I mean, who wouldn't want to eat a big slice of Caramel Pecan Chocolate Cake? Um, seconds please! I also love how they are organized. There are chapters called Honey's Sweet Tooth or The Ladies who Lunch. So if you are looking for something that fits with the occasion, you just have to find that occasion and whala, there's your recipe. I love it. I think the first thing I am going to make is the sour cream blueberry pancakes. Yum. My daughter's birthday is coming up soon and she always asks for pancakes for her birthday breakfast. Usually I turn to the box (yep, you know the one). But that's because I've never tried to make them from scratch. My mother did once, and they don't bring back fond memories. I think it's high time we make some new pancake memories.
The only down side I did see to this is that there aren't pictures of all the recipes, or at least there aren't in the digital copy that I received. But the photos that are there are so tempting that I had to close down the reader until after I had lunch. I was starting to salivate! This is one cookbook that I think I need a physical copy of. It's just beautiful, both in words, photos and recipes.
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