Baking in the American South - by Anne Byrn (Hardcover)

About the Book

Witness the rise of Southern baking from humble recipes to one of the world's richest culinary traditions in this essential cookbook from bestselling author Anne Byrn. With 200 recipes and hundreds of photos, Baking in the American South has the biscuits, cornbread, cakes, and rolls that will help you bake like a Southerner, even if you aren't.

Book Synopsis

Enjoy mouthwatering Southern baking recipes, from biscuits and cornbread to cakes and rolls, that will warm your kitchen and your heart.

Prepare yourself to savor the South through the baking that made it famous. In Baking in the American South, bestselling author Anne Byrn brings one of the world's richest culinary traditions to life with 200 recipes from 14 states. Get ready to bake like a Southerner, even if you aren't one!

Baking in the American South is the definitive cookbook guide to the South's deep baking legacy that beautifully weaves together the recipes and stories from the past and present. Before you know it, you will be baking up favorites like cracklin' cornbread, buttermilk biscuits, yeast rolls, banana pudding, lemon icebox pie, lace cookies, and caramel cake.

Get ready to enjoy from-scratch, Southern classic recipes, including:

• Thomasville Cheese Biscuits
• Ouita Michel's Sweet Potato Streusel Muffins
• Nina Cain's Batty Cakes with Lacy Edges
• The Best Lemon Meringue Pie
• Georgia Gilmore's Pound Cake

This cookbook is the perfect gift for cake connoisseurs, pie aficionados, biscuit enthusiasts, bakers, foodies, chefs, and anyone who can't pass up a delicious baked good.

Baking in the American South will give you a window into the people, stories, and history behind the South's rich culinary traditions as you bake up your favorite Southern treats.

**Included in the Best of List for Cookbooks by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association**

**Named a 2025 Tennessee Book Award Finalist in the Non-Fiction Category by Humanities Tennessee**

Review Quotes

'Home chefs will treasure this cookbook and appreciate Byrn's entertaining stories while their delicious regional fare bakes.'--Shelf Awareness (starred review)

'Byrn provides an encyclopedia of Southern baked goods in this masterful and extensive collection encompassing the region's sweet and savory offerings--This is a treasure trove.'--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'Byrn's wise, winning, and wonderful doorstop dive into the recipes and stories that make up the heart and soul of Southern baking is essential.'--Library Journal (starred review)

'definitive--The encyclopedic range--from hoecakes to chiffon, from humble to highfalutin--is part of what gives 'Baking' its flour-dusted charm. The other part is Byrn's sussing out of what sets Southern baking apart.'--Garden & Gun

'[A] pleasurable mix of craveable delights and culinary storytelling-- While baking in the American South was founded on a turbulent and often unsavory history, the individuals--enslaved Africans and their descendants, Creole peoples, Moravians, Jews, and immigrants--and fertile land gave rise to the towering culinary culture Byrn captures here with anecdotes, engaging prose, and passion readers will feel.'--BOOKLIST (starred review)