Introducing “Sweetness” – My New Book!
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My latest book, Sweetness, hits shelves November 8, 2016. Click here to pre-order your copy now.
Today I’d like to introduce you to a piece of my heart, my latest book, Sweetness.
Sweetness is a cookbook with over 190 Recipes, which I dedicated to and wrote in honor of my grandparents.
The dedication:
The 192 Recipes in this one are extra special.
Several were found from digging deep into heritage recipe files and bringing back lost and nearly lost favorites from generations ago. When my Grandmama passed away I inherited her cookbook and found so many treasures to share with you from that! Some members of the Southern Plate family also shared cherished and nearly lost recipes from their grandparents as well.
And the stories, always the stories….They are the stories of who made these beloved dishes. You’ll find stories from my grandparent’s childhoods along with photos of them back in the day. Stories Grandmama made me promise I would tell after she is gone.
I can’t believe she is gone. I can’t believe they are gone. But I am so very blessed to have had them in my life and I’m grateful to you for letting me tell you about them in this book.
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Chapters:
- Chapter 1: From The Cookie Jar
- Chapter 2: Deeply Delicious Brownies and Bars
- Chapter 3: Poke Cakes, Pound Cakes, Layer Cakes, and Love
- Chapter 4: Homemade Pies Made Easy
- Chapter 5: Cobblers, Puddings, and Sweet Rolls
- Chapter 6: Quick Breads, Muffins, and Breakfast (or Anytime) Treats
- Chapter 7: Old Fashioned Fruit Salads
- Chapter 8: Simple Candies and Sweet Snacks
- Chapter 9: Sweet Sippins
- Chapter 10: Pantry Chapter – Basic Recipes (pie crusts, meringue, whipped cream, etc)
Note: There are some lower sugar recipes as well as recipes that use sugar free ingredients in this book.
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There are lots of photos (but never as many as we would all like!) and they all have a vintage feel. Plenty of Pyrex was used and lots of fun vintage Pyrex clip art can be found throughout the book as well.
192 Recipes Total, plus an abundance of stories, family photos, and passages of encouragement – lots of encouragement.
I poured my heart and a large portion of my soul and childhood into this book. The recipes are sure to become favorites for generations to come and it is my hope that the stories help us to remember and preserve the Sweetness of generations past.
This is my third published book. I do not have plans for another book and would love your help in getting word out about this one. All pre-orders count as first day sales, so the best way to get on the Best Seller lists is to get as many pre-orders as possible.Â
Pre-Order The Book Below:
Available November 8th
Preorder Now At The Links Below:
Note: There was an initial cover for the book that was changed. Some of these retailers may still show the first cover image but you’ll receive the one featured in this post regardless.
Thank you so much for allowing me the honor of sharing my heart with you a third time.
Sweetness: Southern Recipes to Celebrate the Warmth, the Love, and the Blessings of a Full Life was written to bring Sweetness to your table and bring to mind the Sweetness in your life. I hope you enjoy it.
What a lovely name for your cookbook!!! Very endearing.
Thank you!!!
Your other 2 ckbks are my go to books. Pleased that you have added another one..I am sure it will as wonderful as the other 2.
Thank you Blanche!!!
Such a beautiful book cover and dedication. I love, love the preview pages and the vintage feel is so special and perfect. I am sad this is your last one, but I imagine there is just so much work going into writing a book. I will have to order so I then will have all 3 of your books on my shelf. Are these all new recipes not featured previously in your first book?
Thank you Teresa!! I hope you enjoy it just as much as the others. Yes, most of the recipes are ones that have yet to be published.
From reading your blog for several years, I know this book will be a treasure!
Thank you Vicki!!
Proud for you!!! Tickled for me!!! Can’t wait to get my own copy!!
Thank you for all you do!
Thank you Marian!!
Christy: I have just been waiting for you to mention it so I could tell you that Amazon sent me an e-mail about it last Thursday very early, and I immediately pre-ordered the Kindle version. I’m looking forward to it very much, and I’m also happy that I FINALLY got to tell you I pre-ordered it! I was just busting waiting to tell you. I know it’ll be a good cookbook.
I envy you. I only got to know 1 grandparent, my maternal grandparents died long before I was born, my paternal grandfather 4 years before I was born, and when I was a kid, I only got to see Grandma and the rest of the family for the two weeks we were on vacation-if we got to take one. We spent one week with each side of the family. Occasionally they visited us, but we lived in the desert in 115º heat, so visits were not frequent, and never during hot weather, which ruled out half of the year at least. 8)
🙂 Thank you for the pre-order Kathy!!! I hate that you missed out on knowing your grandparents but I hope you got to know them through stories and memories that carried on their legacy!
Christy: Thanks for the kind thought. That would have been very nice, but it just didn’t happen that way.
The one thing I do have from my grandmother, is a recipe for “Farmer’s Rice”, which my aunt wrote out for me nearly 40 years ago; she and one of her brothers loved it and craved it, and couldn’t successfully make it. Neither could I, and I couldn’t find anything out about it whenever I searched cookbooks, or online for it. I gave up on it for decades and then a year or so ago, found the recipe and googled it.
My Great-grandfather was first generation Pennsylvania Dutch, and I finally found out that this is a recipe similar to rivels or milk soup, and with the help of another aunt who also has Pennsylvania Dutch roots, I have been having much more success making something I’ve never had and have seen few, if any, pictures of. I think it’s a great comfort food, but I have absolutely no idea if I’m doing it correctly, but I treasure the connection to the grandmother that I never met, and who, according to my aunt, could cook anything. . . . except for a cake. 8) I might not make Farmers’ Rice as well as she did, but I can make a cake!
Christy – I loved the dedication to your grandparents. That was SO SWEET! I miss my grandmothers and granddaddies SO much! And they were all from Alabama (except one from Georgia). Can’t wait to see your cookbook! :-)))
Thank you Lise!!