Mama's Tea Cakes: 101 Delicious Soul Food Desserts

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Mama's Tea Cakes offers a new look at traditional African-American desserts.  These one hundred and one goodies, handed down from one generation to the next, have been collected and modernized by renowned chef Wilbert Jones.

These delicious cakes, tasty cookies, savory pies, and sweet treats would make your grandma proud.  Each unforgettable yet contemporary recipe includes a brief history of the dessert, effortless instructions, and serving suggestions.  Jones includes everything from Apple Pecan Layer Cake and scrumptious Sweet Potato Pie to Butterscotch Cookies and old-fashioned Moonshine Whiskey Cake, and tells how the recipe, first created in antebellum southern kitchens, developed from an American treat into an international treasure.

A sensible, easy-to-follow, illustrated cookbook, Mama's Tea Cakes introduces all the heavenly pleasures of soul food desserts.  Tempt your guests with such easy-to-make sweet treats as Peach Cobbler, to cap off a Sunday brunch after church; Old-Fashioned Pound Cake, to share over an afternoon lunch with girlfriends; and Harvest Sweet Potato Pie and other delicious, mouth-watering, go-back-for-seconds desserts to serve as a finale to the family dinner.

Recipes are accompanied by nuggets of American folklore, which help to explain not only how these desserts come into being but who they became big favorites.  Discover the secret touches desserts into temptations that diners still rave over centuries later.  This book is for everyone - the sometime baker and the everyday chef.  Mama's Tea Cakes is a gift that will be passed down for generations to come.

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