Grandma's Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We Baked

By Joanne Lamb Hayes

Book Overview

Anyone who loves great American desserts will delight in Grandma's Wartime Baking Book. The result of extensive research, interviews, and recipe testing, Joanne Lamb Hayes's follow-up to Grandma's Wartime Kitchen delivers beloved and still irresistible recipes for cakes, pies, cookies, cobblers, muffins, breads, and other baked treats created by women on the home front during the challenging days of World War II. Faced with rationing, calls for better nutrition, and waning morale, home bakers found clever ways to make quick and delicious desserts for their families as well as their loved ones on the front lines. More than 120 of these recipes are collected here, along with quotes, anecdotes, baking tips, illustrations, and advertisements that capture the spirit and concerns of the era. These delicious, quick, and easy recipes are perfect for today's busy bakers, and they offer a long-overdue salute to the resourceful, inventive, and patriotic women who created them. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312306288
• ISBN13: 9780312306281
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.8" x 7.7"