Crisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of
six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own
kitchens and communities and discovered a treasure trove of
delicacies.
Sweet Carolina offers the recipes for more than
220 of these confections, along with their cooks' equally flavorful
reminiscences, tips, and instructions for successfully creating
desserts and candies that are bound to become favorites all over
again in the Old North State and beyond.
From easy apple dumplings, black walnut pound cake, Cherokee
persimmon cake, and Miss Peach's sweet potato pie to lemon squares,
coconut melt-away cookies, buttermilk pie, vanilla ice cream (or
try the peach), old-fashioned butter mints, and five-minute fudge,
this cookbook features many desserts as familiar as old
friends--and some new and surprising delights, like the lazy day
sonker (a deep dish pastry served with flavors such as peach,
cherry, or sweet potato). As many of the contributing cooks point
out, the use of seasonal and local ingredients is prized in these
wide-ranging and mouth-watering recipes.
An invitation for home cooks of all levels of experience to get
into the kitchen, this cookbook will satisfy more than the sweet
tooth. From the mountains to the Piedmont to the coast,
Sweet
Carolina preserves a significant record of North Carolina and
southern culinary traditions.