Sticky Fingers Cookbook

Beautifully illustrated with over 60 photographs, Sticky Fingers Cookbook contains sixty-four (plus variations) pure and simple recipes for making remarkably tasty sweets without using cane sugar. Make wholesome and delicious breakfasts, after school snacks, dinner party desserts, holiday pies, cakes and breads, and even ice cream. Most of these recipes were developed since my husband resolved to give up sugar. I just thought "How am I going to do that? Is that even possible? " I was the one in our family who liked to cook and I wasn't shy about figuring things out for myself. My mom, who lived through the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, taught me her way of making great things from whatever was at hand. I measured with my hands, rarely used a recipe, but this was uncharted territory, way out of my comfort zone. That was more than fifteen years ago, and I have learned to make pecan pie, ice cream, birthday cake and even hot pepper tequila truffles, all without cane sugar. I didn't like the idea of artificial sweeteners, so all of these recipes use natural ones like maple syrup, barley malt, date sugar – foods with more to them than just sweet.