You Be Sweet - Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time by Patsy Caldwell and Amy Wilson
did not impress me very much. I liked
the idea of having little stories at the beginning of each chapter but I found
them to be a little boring and scattered.
I love desserts and I was pleased with the recipes but, overall, it was
mainly just a regular dessert cookbook with nothing too unique about it setting
it above the rest of the many cookbooks out there. I would have loved to have more pictures in You Be Sweet; however, the pictures that
were provided were colourful and well-done.
Since it mentioned many memories of old times and compared the recipes
to that which one’s grandmother would have made, I would have expected the
ingredients used to be similar to those that would be available in years gone
by. However, I was surprised to see a
number of the recipes using artificial colours, flavours, and processed
products. In this book’s defence, I must
admit that I have a long list of recipes I am still eager to try and to enjoy
the wonderful results of a delicious home-made dessert. Some of the desserts I liked were quite unique
beings ones that I’ve not seen elsewhere in my frequent perusing of decadent
dessert cookbooks – two recipes being Geraldine’s Paper Bag Apple Pie and
Concord Grape Pie as well as the fried pie and cake recipes included. Also included were some common favourites
that were useful to have on hand such as Graham Cracker Crust and the coveted Molten
Chocolate Cakes recipe that I have long searching for.
