Classic Home Desserts

For this collection, unmatched in the field of dessert cookbooks, Richard Sax devoted more than a decade to searching out and perfecting 350 of the world's best and most beloved home desserts. Everything the cook longs for is here: cobblers and crisps, cakes and cookies, puddings and souffles, pies and pastries, ice creams and sauces. Extensive sidebars "” profiles of cooks, engaging recollections of favorite desserts, quotations from hundreds of literary works and excerpts from fascinating old recipes"”make this an indispensable, lively volume.