HEIRLOOM BAKING

with the Brass Sisters

More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered and Collected by the

Queens of Comfort Food

by Marilynn Brass & Sheila Brass; Photographs by Andy Ryan

“It’s not often a baking book becomes a cultural icon, but this one

is guaranteed to do so.” – Cooking Digest

Now in paperback, the James Beard-nominated cookbook, Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters, is the collection of a century’s worth of the finest recipes for America’s favorite desserts and baked goods, all lovingly updated for the modern kitchen. As the Boston Globe described it, Marilynn and Sheila’s “Heirloom Baking is like your mother’s recipe box, except better organized.”

The two inimitable sisters and self-proclaimed “roundish women of a certain age” have spent decades collecting and curating heirloom recipes, passed down with care (and a few chocolate smudges on the recipe cards), from one generation to the next. They have meticulously recorded recipes for the best dishes of friends and family, and even visited yard sales and antique shops to discover …

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