Timber™ African-American Heritage Cookbook
- All the recipes nobody ever wrote down
- 200+ recipes passed down through generations of African American culture
- The dishes they'll ask you to bring again
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Timber™ African-American Heritage Cookbook
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"My grandmother cried when she saw the photographs. She said those women looked like her mama."
"Made the dressing with its own cornbread like the book says and my daddy went quiet. That is the highest compliment he gives."
"I am not a natural cook but I can read. The sweet potato pie came out right the first time."
"Bought three. One for each of my kids to keep. This is the one book I want in their houses when I am gone."
"This book not only has fond remembrances, it also has stories and pictures as well as recipes. These recipes are from the Tuskegee Institute. I highly recommend ordering because it's a lovely book."
Never written down. Until Tuskegee.
Why Granny's Recipes Were Never On Paper
In most Southern states it was against the law for our great grandparents to learn to write. So the food lived in her hands, stayed in her kitchen, and when she passed it went with her. Then the blogs filled the hole with a watered down copy. This book is where the originals finally got written down, at Tuskegee Institute, by one of us.
- 200+ recipes with real measurements, temps and times
- Gathered from the kitchens and graduates of Tuskegee Institute
- Written by a Tuskegee grad and former Air Force officer, not a blog
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Read by 5,000+ families
It Reads Like A Family Album That Feeds You
Between the recipes are the old black and white photographs of the women who cooked them, their names, their stories, poems and journal entries from the Tuskegee archives. It does not replace her recipe card. It fills in what the card left out.
- Dr. George Washington Carver's own sweet potato pie, in his words
- Southern Corn Bread Dressing with its own pan of Dressing Corn Bread
- My Grandmother's Pound Cake, Collard Greens with Cornmeal Dumplings
- Featured by USA Today and NPR. 272 pages. First published 1996.
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Made to be passed down
Nobody Wrote It Down For Your Kids
You cannot hand down a link. This is a real book you keep on the counter, cook from for years, and hand to your daughter when it is her turn. So she never has to beg somebody to teach her.
- Hardcover and leather editions built to last decades
- Family Recipe Keeper Kit free with 2 or more, so her cards get written down too
- Most customers come back for a second copy for someone they love
This Thanksgiving
Put The Bucket Down. Cook Her Table.
Somebody in your family is about to get handed the dressing, the pie, or the whole plate. You can order it from a box again and hear about it. Or you can open this book and make it the way it was actually made, with the second cornbread, the ginger in the pie, the dumplings in the greens.
- The whole holiday table, written down and measured
- Practice it once before the family gets there
- Be the one they come to for the dish
Inside the book
200+ Recipes. Nothing Watered Down.
A few of the dishes printed inside, by name. Dr. George Washington Carver's own recipes are marked.
🍞Breads & Dressing IN THE BOOK
- 1Southern Corn Bread Dressing
- 2Dressing Corn Bread (its own pan)
- 3Spoon Bread
- 4Ginger Cakes
🍗Mains & Sides IN THE BOOK
- 5Smothered Yard Bird
- 6Baked Macaroni
- 7Collard Greens with Cornmeal Dumplings
- 8Louisiana Gumbo
- 9Chitterlings
- 10Sweet Potato Casserole
🥧Pies & Cakes IN THE BOOK
- 11Dr. Carver's Sliced Sweet Potato Pie ✓ CARVER
- 12Dr. Carver's Peanut Cake with Molasses ✓ CARVER
- 13Sweet Potato Pie (with the ginger)
- 14My Grandmother's Pound Cake
- 15Gift Cake (the six eggs)
- 16Peach Pandowdy
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Why 4.9 From 6,835 Ratings
"Bought it for my mom and she called me three times that week to talk about it."
"This is not just a cookbook. It is a history book that happens to feed you. My Bible now."
"Best gift I have given anyone in years. My sister cried when she opened it."
Before you decide
You Have Read Enough. The Only Question Is How Many.
Think about your own kitchen first. Then the people who keep asking how she made it. A grown son who stopped coming home for Sunday dinner. A mama who would read every page. A daughter who never got to ask. You cannot argue anyone into it. You can hand them the book.
- One for your house, so it is finally on your shelf
- Two when somebody you love is asking the questions you once asked
- Three so every child gets one to keep
- 365 day money back guarantee, so the only risk is never cooking from it
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