Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters: More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered from Family Cookbooks, Original Journals, Scraps of Paper, and Grandmothers Kitchen
Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters: More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered from Family Cookbooks, Original Journals, Scraps of Paper, and Grandmothers Kitchen
FINALIST FOR A JAMES BEARD AWARD IN THE BAKING/DESSERT CATEGORYWe all have fond memories of a favorite dessert our grandmother or mother used to bake. It’s these dishes that give us comfort in times of stress, help us celebrate special occasions, and remind us of the person who used to bake for us those many years ago.
In Heirloom Baking, Marilynn Brass and Sheila Brass preserve and update 150 of these beloved desserts. The recipes are taken from their vast collection of antique manuscript cookbooks, handwritten recipes passed down through the generations that they’ve amassed over twenty years. The recipes range from the late 1800s to today, and come from a variety of ethnicities and regions. The book features such down-home and delicious recipes as Brandied Raisin Teacakes, Cuban Flan, Cranberry-Orange Cream Scones, Chattanooga Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars, and many more. Accompanying the recipes are stories from the lives of the families from which they came.
The Brass Sisters have taken care to update every recipe for today’s modern kitchens. More than 150 photographs showcase the scrumptious food in full-color detail. Finally, the Brass sisters encourage each reader to begin collecting his or her own family recipes in the lined pages and envelope at the back of the book.
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About the Author
Marilynn Brass and Sheila Brass are home cooks with more than 95 years of experience between them. They have made appearances on Antiques Roadshow FYI and are the subject of a recent WGBH/PBS special, Brass Sisters: Queens of Comfort Food. Marilynn is a former employee of WGBHBoston, where Sheila still works. They are co-principals at Shelmar Antiques. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Marilynn Brass and Sheila Brass are home cooks with more than 95 years of experience between them. They have made appearances on Antiques Roadshow FYI and are the subject of a recent WGBH/PBS special, Brass Sisters: Queens of Comfort Food. Marilynn is a former employee of WGBHBoston, where Sheila still works. They are co-principals at Shelmar Antiques. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Customer Reviews
perfect gift for kindrid spirits
I haven't tried any of the recipes yet because I gave it as a gift, the response was so good I did it again. ( I will have to put this on my wish list.) Before I gift wrapped this generous gem, I looked at the photos. Just browsing through the pages is a comfort. Heirloom Baking was assembled with great care and love....If you want a cook book that reeks of history and sisterhood, this is it.
You Can't Go Wrong with the Brass Sisters
I'm one of those persons who has a bazillion cookbooks, zillions of recipes on my computer and loads of cooking and related sites bookmarked in my browser. I love cookbooks, love cooking, fancy myself as sort of a gourmet. I've written a cooking column in a magazine and I've got Amazon So You'd Like Too Guides where I talk about my favorite recipes.
I've used and enjoyed the Brass Sisters first book Heirloom Baking. And I can see I'm going to use and enjoy this one as well. Usually, when I get a new cookbook, I'll browse through it and if something strikes my fancy or if it's something I think hubby Dub would like, I'll cook or bake it up, following the recipe as closely as possible, then the second time I do it, I might make a few changes. Then if it makes the cut, I'll enter it into my cooking database to be handy whenever I need it as I often cook away from home.
The first recipe I did from this book was "Louella's Church Cauliflower" on page 95. It was a recipe from the 1950s and it was delicious. And one cannot have vegetables alone for dinner, not if she's married to a man like my Dub, so for a main course I did the "Danish Roast Goose Stuffed with Apples and Prunes" on page 210, but I used a small turkey instead, because Hubby Dub won't eat goose, never has, something about the geese he chased in his neighborhood park when he was a child. But the turkey was to die for.
I can see a lot of the recipes in this book are going to find their way onto my laptop and this book is going to get used often in my kitchen. Like Heirloom Baking this book is a keeper. You can't go wrong with the Brass Sisters.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
Marilynn and Sheila are to Die for
My mother gave me Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters for Christmas last year and I just loved it, loved the lay out, love the recipes (a note here, I'm a five day a week dieter and healthy eater, but on Saturday and Sunday I throw caution out the window and eat what I want and I've gone to the Brass sisters several weekends in a row during the last year).
Because I loved their last cookbook so much, I was really looking forward to this one and I have to say I was not disappointed, but then I knew I was just going to love it and I surely do. As with their last book, everything in this one is perfect and perfectly presented, from the well laid out recipes to the photos of the delicious food. You can't go wrong with the Brass Sisters, you really can't.
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