Notes about Recipes in this book

• Marble molasses pound cake

  • schambers on November 08, 2011

    Tried it because it was different than anything I usually make. It seemed to need more salt, or possibly a flavoring added to the base batter.

• Sweet potato pound cake

  • cmartinfirvida on February 26, 2024

    This cake has a surprisingly light crumb despite what feels like a super heavy batter. The only adjustment made was to replace and increase the nutmeg with other warm spices that our household prefers. Ginger, cloves, cardamom are all happy swaps. Definitely will make again.

• Pineapple-coconut cake

  • wcassity on March 30, 2013

    Too sweet for us. Better the next day - very gooey day-of.

• Cornelia Walker Bailey's pear bread

  • Breadcrumbs on April 15, 2015

    p. 114 - This bread is a let down. First of all, the grated pears were indiscernible in the finished bread, they’d simply melted away. Worse though, you couldn’t taste them at all. In fact, all you taste is overwhelming flavour of the 1tbsp of cinnamon the recipe calls for. To boot, the bread was too dry for our tastes. I also noticed a discrepancy in the ingredient descriptions. In the ingredient list, the author calls for the pears to be grated finely however in the actual recipe directions, they are referred to as chopped pears (which frankly I’d have preferred) Also, while the recipe calls for walnuts, & has you toss them in some flour, no further directions are included on incorporating them. I did stir them in but clearly this book has some editing issues, a real nit with me since it erodes my trust in the book. I’m wondering if this book is a dud as other EYB recipe reviews are underwhelming. Photos here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/1010527?commentId=9524264#9524264