Traditional Baking

About Traditional Baking

The Foxfire Americana Library brings you back-to-basics recipes for breads, cornbreads, puddings, cakes, and pies that are just as easily baked on a modern oven as the traditional Appalachian woodstoves where they began. For adventurous cooks, this volume also includes instructions and diagrams on how to build a churn and make your own butter.

Recipes include:
 
Corn Pone
Hush Puppies
Rye Bread
Cracklin’ Bread
Molasses Sweet Bread
Syrup Bread
Dried Apple Cake
Tame Gooseberry Pie
Aunt Arie’s Recipe for Egg Custard

Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs of Appalachia.  Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution. In July 2016, Vintage Shorts celebrates Foxfire’s 50th Anniversary.